A Suffolk County mother who lost her 27-year-old daughter to a fatal stabbing is now pushing New York lawmakers to create a public registry that would let people check whether a potential partner has a history of domestic violence. Bevin Llanes says her daughter, Megan Llanes, was killed by her boyfriend, and she wants that tragedy to spark change in Albany before another family suffers the same loss.
“I don’t want another mother to go through what I’m going through,” Bevin Llanes said, according to News 12 Brooklyn, adding that she wants her daughter’s death to help save at least one life. The outlet reports she is seeking to prevent a similar tragedy from happening to someone else’s family.
The effort centers on bringing a version of Tennessee’s “Savannah’s Law” to New York. Tennessee became the first state in the country to launch a searchable public domestic violence offender registry on January 1, 2026, a law that requires the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to publish online conviction records for repeat offenders, according to Observer Today. That law covers individuals convicted of two or more qualifying domestic abuse offenses.
Named for a Deputy Killed by an Ex-Boyfriend
Tennessee’s original law is named for 22-year-old Robertson County Deputy Savanna Puckett, who was shot and killed in her home in January 2022 by an ex-boyfriend who had a documented prior history of domestic violence arrests, per Police1. Puckett was found dead inside her burning home after missing roll call, a case that sparked statewide demands for accessible offender criminal histories…