Tennessee actually just did something amazing for women | Arwa Mahdawi

The state has created the first registry in the US to track repeat domestic violence offenders

Let's say you're going on a first date and you want to make sure the person you're meeting up with isn't a registered sex offender. If you live in the US, you can find this out very quickly: there's a centralized website provided by the US Department of Justice that lets you search a name or location in seconds.

Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian US columnist