As this petition gains a lot of support, I am thinking heavily about this idea from all potential angles and I'm continuing to research the safest and most effective ways to protect survivors, while protecting any future victims of abuse or violence. While I'm extremely passionate about helping others like myself, and protecting victims, I'm not only learning about the potential benefits, but also the complexities of pushing to create a National Domestic Offender Registry. I really want to make sure this movement advocates for something effective, ethical, and survivor-centered. Over time I will continue to update this petition as I refine the proposal, and gain more insights to the situation.

With everything concerned, laws, victim safety, transparency, thoughts/feelings/opinions, so on and so forth, if a full-blown registry might not be the way for everybody, what would be the way? What could we possibly do to help people feel more safe, without exposing them to more atrocity or danger. Survivors absolutely deserve privacy and safety, and also, future partners deserve transparency and protection as well, if they so desire it. It feels like a bit of a double-edged sword in a way, but there has to be a way around this. 

I mean, is there a way that we can protect victims identity in such a registry? Or maybe offenders aren't added to the registry without victim approval maybe? Or exploring other types of compromise models that already exist and reforming to make a more consistent one across the board... I feel like there might be some potential ideas here that I will propose in my next update. In the meantime, if you have any thoughts on this and how to make something of this nature work for as many as possible, as safely as possible; I'm all ears.