Lawmakers Seek State Registry Of Domestic Violence Offenders
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State lawmakers are pushing a bill to create a registry of domestic violence offenders, similar to the one in place for sex offenders.
The bill proposed by State Senator Eric Adams, Assemblywoman Vanessa Gibson and Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries would require anyone convicted of domestic violence to be listed in a statewide database.
"We have to protect women, and we do not want to wait for any murders to occur as they have done before we take action," Gibson said yesterday. "We have already seen incident after incident, crime after crime, and there is an urgent need for us to do this like, yesterday."
The bill comes less than a week after 23-year-old Sarah Coit was stabbed to death in her Lower East Side apartment.
Her boyfriend, Raul Barrera, is charged with second-degree murder.
Police say he has several domestic violence incidents on his record.