{"id":70956,"date":"2026-04-06T07:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/us-states-propose-domestic-violence-registries-but-could-they-harm-women\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:56:38","slug":"us-states-propose-domestic-violence-registries-but-could-they-harm-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/us-states-propose-domestic-violence-registries-but-could-they-harm-women\/","title":{"rendered":"US states propose domestic violence registries \u2013 but could they harm women?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee leads way but experts say offender registry could provide a false sense of security \u2013 and identify victims<\/p>\n<p>When Amanda Martin started dating Christopher Cendroski, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamardemocrat.com\/articles\/21500\/view\/christopher-luke-cendroski\">family has described<\/a> him as \u201cbig-hearted\u201d, she had no idea he had been arrested for domestic assault. Had she known, she said she never would become involved with him.<\/p>\n<p>A few months into their relationship, which began in 2011, Cendroski started beating Martin, and in May 2012, he nearly choked her to death, she said. Police arrested Cendroski and helped both Martin and her children get to a shelter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/06\/domestic-violence-offender-registry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee leads way but experts say offender registry could provide a false sense of security \u2013 and identify victims When Amanda Martin started dating Christopher Cendroski, whose family has described him as \u201cbig-hearted\u201d, she had no idea he had been arrested for domestic assault. Had she known, she said she never would become involved with &#8230; <a title=\"US states propose domestic violence registries \u2013 but could they harm women?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/us-states-propose-domestic-violence-registries-but-could-they-harm-women\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US states propose domestic violence registries \u2013 but could they harm women?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}