Claremont — The New Hampshire Governor’s Advisory Council on Diversity and Inclusion will make the third stop of its statewide listening tour in Claremont next week, having chosen the location partly in response to an August incident that injured a biracial boy in what his family calls a racially motivated “lynching.”

The council, launched in December by Gov. Chris Sununu, is traveling the state to ask residents how New Hampshire can reduce discrimination and support minority communities.

The group eventually will present Sununu with a list of policy recommendations, according to advisory council Chairman Rogers Johnson, but first must visit as many regions as possible.

“We’re not there to give information or instruction (to citizens),” Johnson said in an interview. “We’re there to listen.”

Johnson, who also is president of the Seacoast-region NAACP, said the council held its first listening session last month in Durham, because of some “racially charged” incidents at the University of New Hampshire.

Students there reported being spit on or having rocks thrown at them, and vandals drew racial slurs and swastikas on school property.

Another listening session convened earlier this month in Portsmouth, where parents of some Seacoast-area schoolchildren have reported race-related bullying in recent years.

“You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out,” Johnson said of the council’s choice of meeting places. He added that his plan was to prioritize locations “where there are the most public issues.”

Johnson said Claremont residents may bring up what occurred in August to then-8-year-old Quincy Chivers.

The boy’s family says a group of older boys racially taunted him and then pushed him off a picnic table with a rope around his neck — an episode that sent Quincy to the hospital with rope burns and that his family called a “lynching.”

The parents of one of the older boys said the incident was an accident.

But Johnson said the topics of discussion would depend wholly on the residents who come to speak.

In December, New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald said his office planned to release a “detailed report” on the Claremont incident “as soon as the law permits.”

MacDonald gave the update on the same day that he and Sununu launched a new unit within the Attorney General’s Office to enforce anti-discrimination and civil rights laws.

At the time, MacDonald cited the Claremont case as one of a number of incidents around the state that spurred the council and the civil rights unit.

On Tuesday, Senior Assistant Attorney General Lisa Wolford said via email that there was nothing new to report on the legal front.

“The case remains open in our office because we intend to issue a public report — which we will do when the law permits — and thus have not closed it,” she said.

Future meetings of the advisory council will take place all over the state, including at Dartmouth College, where Johnson said he had seen diversity issues crop up.

He declined to name an example, saying there were “too many to note.”

Although it hasn’t been formally scheduled, the Dartmouth event may take place in late spring or summer, he said.

The Claremont listening session is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 3, at River Valley Community College on Route 120.

Rob Wolfe can be reached at rwolfe@vnews.com or 603-727-3242.