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Support and opposition collide over proposed domestic-violence registry
Summary
Sponsors presented HB 13-63 to create a registry for repeat domestic-violence offenders; survivors and family members urged action while domestic-violence advocates warned registries can mislead and risk identifying victims, and said national groups oppose such lists.
A bill to create a public domestic-violence offender registry drew sharply different testimony at the House Judiciary Committee on March 12.
The sponsor described HB 13-63 as a registry for individuals convicted of multiple domestic-related crimes that would require registration after a second conviction and publish non-sensitive conviction information to help identify patterns. The sponsor said the measure was modeled…
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