US’s first registry of domestic abusers takes effect in Tennessee
The Guardian••nation
Key Points:
- Tennessee has enacted "Savanna's law," the first state law in the US to create a registry of individuals convicted of domestic abuse, effective from January 1.
- The law mandates the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to maintain a database of people with at least two domestic violence convictions or guilty pleas, including their name, date of birth, photo, and conviction locations, but not their addresses.
- The registry will retain information for up to 20 years after the last conviction and applies only to offenses committed after January 1, with no retroactive inclusion.
- The law is named after Savanna Puckett, a sheriff’s deputy who was fatally shot by her ex-boyfriend James Jackson Conn in January 2022, who had a
