{"id":279655,"date":"2026-06-27T03:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279655\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:37:58","slug":"advocates-call-for-stronger-child-protection-laws-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279655\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocates call for stronger child protection laws in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 Advocates and some New York lawmakers are pushing to improve protections for children here in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Jim Tedisco, Assemblyman Matt Simpson, and Saratoga County District Attorney Brett Eby are calling for new state legislation called Joycelynn\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/new-bills-would-make-child-endangerment-a-violent-felony-shifting-cases-from-misdemeanor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MORE: New bills would make child endangerment a violent felony, shifting cases from misdemeanor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would increase the maximum prison sentence for criminally negligent homicide of a child to 20 years to life.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, that potential sentence is only 16 months to four years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/senate-gillibrand-hails-senate-passage-of-bipartisan-bill-aimed-at-protecting-child-sexual-abuse-treys-law-senator-gillibrand-and-us-senator-ted-cruz-nondisclosure-agreements-texas-man-carlock-signed-an-nda-civil-settlement-agreement-cbs6-wrgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MORE: Senate unanimously passes bipartisan bill aimed at protecting child sexual abuse survivors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advocates are also pushing to pass Kyra\u2019s Law \u2014 which would work to protect children in child custody disputes.<\/p>\n<p>One way it would do that is by mandating judge training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKyra\u2019s Law is going to look at child safety factors and prioritize the life and safety and the health of the child, and that\u2019s what judges need to do. Judges are not well-equipped and well-trained in this situation to make what are life and death decisions,\u201d said Jacqueline Franchetti, Kyra\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>Kyra\u2019s Law has passed in the New York State Legislature and is awaiting signature from the governor.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>Joycelynn\u2019s Law was just introduced earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 Advocates and some New York lawmakers are pushing to improve protections for children here&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-279655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}