ALBANY (AP) -- The state Senate is considering a law that would create a registry of violent felony offenders, similar to the sex offender registry created under Megan's Law.
State senators Mike Nozzolio and Joe Griffo are holding a news conference at the Capitol at noon on Tuesday to discuss Senate action on the measure, named Brittany's Law after a 12-year-old western New York girl who was murdered along with her mother in November 2009.
Brittany Passalacqua (pas-uh-LAHK'-wuh) and her mother, Helen Buchel (boo-SHEL'), were slain with a razor knife in their Geneva apartment by a violent convicted felon who had been released from prison early and put on parole just months earlier.
Brittany's grandmother, Dale Driscoll, is advocating for passage of the law.
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