Politics & Government
Pritzker Signs ‘Colton's Law,' Creating Domestic Violence Task Force
Colton's mother sought to create a new law to help fix all of the glaring loopholes that led to her family's tragedy.
JOLIET, IL (CBS) — When Colton’s father shot and killed him before taking his own life, his mother, Cassandra Tanner Miller, made it her mission to change the way law enforcement and the courts treat victims of domestic violence and their abusers. She sought to create a new law to help fix all of the glaring loopholes that led to her family’s tragedy.
“Why did it have to be my son? Why did it have to be Colton? And the more that I walk this journey I think maybe it was me that had to do it,” she told CBS 2's Megan Hickey earlier this year.
