The father of Gabby Petito, the young woman killed while road-tripping across the U.S. in a van with her fiancé, appeared Wednesday with state legislators in Albany to support a bill that would protect victims of domestic violence.
Joseph Petito, a founder of the Gabby Petito Foundation, joined Sen. Lea Webb, Assemblymember Sarah Clark and others Wednesday in calling for passage of legislation that would require law enforcement officials to include a lethality assessment in standard domestic incident reports.
Introduced by the two legislators, the measure would have officers responding to domestic violence calls evaluate the potential for serious harm or fatality, help identify high-risk situations and connect survivors with resources…