Sentences with phrase «awa documents»
Also today, a group of animal welfare organizations took another step in its lawsuit demanding that USDA restore to full public access the two user - friendly databases that formerly cataloged all of the agency's AWA documents, from annual reports of registered facilities to inspection reports and enforcement actions.
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In this announcement, the agency says that it is «posting the first batch of annual reports of research institutions and inspection reports» resulting from a «comprehensive review» that began with the complete removal of previously public documents that are generated by the agency as it enforces the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and the Horse Protection Act.
To document AWA violations, CAPS investigates federally licensed facilities across the nation (more than 1,000 since 1997).
Last year's letter called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to restore inspection reports and other documents abruptly purged from the agency's website in February 2017, leaving the public in the dark about violators of the AWA and the Horse Protection Act on soring.
«By removing animal welfare documents from the APHIS website, the USDA has made it difficult to obtain timely information about Animal Welfare Act (AWA) licensees, including dog breeders, zoos, research labs, and other regulated entities.
NEW YORK — The ASPCA ® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ®) is urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reverse its decision to remove public documents from its website related to the inspection of facilities licensed under the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA), including zoos, commercial dog breeders and research labs.
Because a recent trend in state legislation has been to enact laws that rely on AWA violations to weed out «bad actors» by prohibiting the sale of dogs from facilities with serious, documented violations, preventing consumers, pet stores and the public from readily accessing this information makes it nearly impossible to comply with these laws and to ensure that they are being enforced