State panel looks for ways to reduce domestic violence

N.H. Attorney General John Formella on Tuesday named 17 people, including Assistant Cheshire County Attorney Shanna O’Rorke, to the state’s newly established Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee.

The panel, which was created this year under N.H. Senate Bill 140, will examine cases in which somebody died through domestic violence. The goal will be to determine best practices that might be employed to prevent such violence.
 
“Fatality review committees have shown us time and again that domestic violence is preventable and that lives could be saved if systems communicated better, assessed risk more consistently, and held offenders accountable,” Amanda Grady Sexton, director of public affairs for the N.H. Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence, said in a prepared statement Tuesday.

Keene Sentinel
September 2, 2025

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