{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/photo-release-gottheimer-attends-unveiling-of-joans-joy-legacy-lane-in-honor-of-joan-dalessandro", "PHOTO RELEASE: Gottheimer Attends Unveiling of \u201cJoan\u2019s Joy Legacy Lane\u201d in Honor of Joan D\u2019Alessandro", "2026-09-08", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "House", "NJ", "Josh Gottheimer", "G000583", "gottheimer.house.gov", "gottheimer", "https://gottheimer.house.gov/press", "scraper", "Above: Gottheimer Helps Unveil \u201cJoan\u2019s Joy Legacy Lane\u201d\n\nHILLSDALE, NJ \u2014 Yesterday, Monday, September 7, 2026, Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) joined Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17), Mayor Michael Sheinfield, the Hillsdale community, Rosemarie D\u2019Alessandro, and the D\u2019Alessandro family to unveil \u201cJoan\u2019s Joy Legacy Lane,\u201d a new street sign honoring the memory of Joan D\u2019Alessandro and her mother\u2019s decades-long fight for stronger child protection laws.\n\n\u201cJoan\u2019s joy is still here. It\u2019s on this street sign. It\u2019s in the law that bears her name. And it\u2019s in every child who is a little safer because you refused to let her story end in silence,\u201d said Congressman Gottheimer (NJ-5).\n\nJoan D\u2019Alessandro was a seven-year-old Girl Scout who was murdered on April 19, 1973, while delivering cookies to a neighbor\u2019s house in Hillsdale. Her mother, Rosemarie D\u2019Alessandro, turned her grief into advocacy, championing the passage of \u201cJoan\u2019s Law\u201d in New Jersey in 1997 under Governor Christie Whitman, and its federal counterpart, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1998, ensuring that anyone who murders and sexually assaults a child under fourteen is never eligible for parole. The legislation has been updated in New Jersey to apply to any child under eighteen.\n\nGottheimer is a cosponsor of the Paula Bohovesky and Joan D\u2019Alessandro Act, to raise the age for prohibition on parole to cover all minors eighteen and under who were murdered and sexually assaulted.\n\nBelow: Gottheimer Helps Unveil \u201cJoan\u2019s Joy Legacy Lane\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-09T09:27:09Z", "2026-09-09T09:29:04Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/photo-release-gottheimer-attends-unveiling-of-joans-joy-legacy-lane-in-honor-of-joan-dalessandro"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0157511569559574, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}