Megan’s Law: The Promise We Cannot Break

This Saturday, the country reaches a solemn milestone: twenty-nine years since Megan’s Law became federal. It is a law not born from bureaucracy or think tanks. It came from a parent’s scream, a child’s last breath, and a neighborhood that never saw it coming.

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Megan Kanka should be 38 years old today. Instead, she is frozen in time: a brown-haired, blue-eyed seven-year-old girl who never got to grow up.

I have three daughters, and I cannot write this as a neutral observer. Megan’s story lives in the back of my mind every time one of my girls walks down the block, grabs a popsicle from the freezer in the garage, or disappears from view for even a minute too long.

That is why this

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