"Other registry laws proposed have placed those who have been exclusively convicted of domestic violence on a registry. I think that is an incomplete step in this process," he said. "We need anyone who has a violent past to be on the registry. Someone may have committed violent actions in the past and entered into a relationship and then becomes violent in the home."

The goal in 2014, Nozzolio said, is to finally get the bill through the Assembly. The state Senate approved the measure in 2011, 2012 and 2013. But each time, the bill died in the Assembly.

This year could be different. Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, a Democrat, introduced Brittany's Law Friday in the Assembly. And Nozzolio said Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R-Canandaigua, is planning an event later this legislative session featuring a bipartisan group of legislators and Passalacqua's grandmother Dale Driscoll to rally support for Brittany's Law.

"We're doing all we can to see this tool of transparency and we'd like to think an important element of preventing violence at all levels, but especially domestic violence," Nozzolio said.

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