Chris Cottrell
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| Born | 1988 |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Arizona State University Georgetown University |
| Organization | Daddy Read a Book |
| Website | chriscottrell.com, Twitter, LinkedIn |
Chris Cottrell is the founder of Daddy Read a Book, and was the student who wrote Chris' Law: Victim's Protection Act.
Chris Cottrell was born in 1988. He graduated from Arizona State University and is attending Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.
At the age of twelve, Chris Cottrell wrote an idea for legislation as part of a homework project for a student legislature. Chris' Law, along with an amendment to the Arizona Constitution, keeps alleged sexual offenders from posting bail and established the first boundary around Arizona schools so convicted sexual offenders could not live in proximity of schools.
The bill was introduced to the Arizona State Senate in 2002 by Senator Dean Martin as "Chris' Law - Victim's Protection Act". It passed the Judiciary Committee and the Arizona Senate in March 2002. The Arizona House of Representatives also voted in favor of the bill a month later and it was signed into law by Governor Jane Dee Hull on May 17, 2002.
The constitutional amendment accompanying the bill was on the Arizona ballot in November, 2002. It passed with 80.4% of the vote, one of the most popular ballot measures in Arizona history.
In 2012, Cottrell founded non-profit Daddy Read a Book focused on supporting children's literacy and connecting families. Daddy Read a Book meets with families facing separation through military deployment, incarceration, etc., and films the separated father reading beloved children's books out loud. Then the family receives a copy of that video to watch while the father is gone.
Chris delivered a talk at TEDx titled Why We Should Fight for Reading.
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