Mayor Bloomberg has signed key legislation in order to increase the safety of victims:

June 6, 2005, Local Law 61 - Amended the City charter by creating a domestic violence fatality review committee to analyze aggregate family related homicide data in order to detect patterns and demographic changes. The committee will make recommendations to improve service delivery and ultimately reduce the number of domestic violence fatalities. Lead by the Commissioner of the Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence, this ten-member committee, appointed by the Mayor, includes the following entities:

• New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 
• New York City Police Department
• Human Resources Administration
• New York City Housing Authority
• Administration for Children's Services
• Bronx District Attorney's Office
• Department of Homeless Services
• Safe Horizon
• inMotion
• Two survivors of domestic violence

December 22, 2003, Local Law 75 - Amended the City's Human Rights Law by requiring that all employers provide reasonable accomodation to victims of domestic violence, sexual offenses and stalking. This augmented the current law (Local Law 1 of 2001) which made it unlawful for an employer to fire, refuse to hire, or discriminate against victims of domestic violence.

December 19, 2002, Local Law 43 - Added a new section to the Administrative Code which ensures that domestic violence victims who apply for emergency shelter or related services are not denied those services based on the lack of documentation of the incidence of domestic violence.

December 19, 2002, Local Law 44 - Amended the Administrative Code to expand the existing restrictions on the issuance of a permit to purchase and possess a rifle or a shotgun to anyone who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, a misdemeanor crime of assault within the last ten years, any combination of three misdemeanors, and to anyone who is subject to certain orders of protection issued for family offenses.