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Animal abuser registry proposed by county lawmaker in New York

By Douglas A. Berman

This local story reports on a novel proposal to expand the use of criminal registries to animal abusers.  The piece is headlined "Suffolk law would place animal abusers on registry: Public could access names, photos of those convicted," and starts this way: A county lawmaker is looking to create a public registry of convicted animal abusers in a move that would make Suffolk County the first municipality in the nation to create such a list to shame abusers and prevent them from adopting animals.... If passed, the names, aliases, addresses and photographs of animal abusers would compiled in a searchable database, much like the state's sex offender registry. The convicted abusers would pay a $50 annual fee for upkeep of the registry, and those who fail to register would be charged $1,000 or face jail time...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).