Sentences with phrase «prosecute animal cruelty laws»

He created six new enforcement positions, including a special prosecutor and «a SWAT team» to prosecute animal cruelty laws.

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Other guests included Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney, who prosecuted the original case that inspired the passage of Buster's animal cruelty felony law, Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo and two K - 9 units, and Richard and Rosemarie Nash who adopted Hudson, one of the Railroad Puppies that was nailed to railroad tracks in Albany.

In fact, despite being a felony, an incident of animal cruelty or neglect that is reported, investigated and successfully prosecuted to the extent of the law is the exception, not the rule.

As the Animal Cruelty Coordinator, Ms. Knaan is responsible for overseeing the prosecution of animal cruelty cases within the District Attorney's Office, as well as training both Deputy D.A.'s and animal control and law enforcement agencies on how to investigate, file, and prosecute cases in which animals have been mistrAnimal Cruelty Coordinator, Ms. Knaan is responsible for overseeing the prosecution of animal cruelty cases within the District Attorney's Office, as well as training both Deputy D.A.'s and animal control and law enforcement agencies on how to investigate, file, and prosecute cases in which animals have been mistranimal cruelty cases within the District Attorney's Office, as well as training both Deputy D.A.'s and animal control and law enforcement agencies on how to investigate, file, and prosecute cases in which animals have been mistranimal control and law enforcement agencies on how to investigate, file, and prosecute cases in which animals have been mistreated.

The vehicle will be available to travel to assist national and local law enforcement in their efforts to build cases against and prosecute animal cruelty offenders.

In 1995, when The HSUS requested that the Alaska attorney general investigate the Iditarod and enforce the Alaska animal cruelty statute against race organizers and participants, the attorney general declined to prosecute because the state's law «provides a defense for causing suffering to an animal if the person's conduct «conformed to accepted veterinary practice.»»

Originally, animal control laws served two purposes: 1) to provide a basis for the protection of the public's health, and 2) to provide a means to prosecute animal cruelty.

Rural Caswell County is prosecuting its first suspect under North Carolina's tougher animal cruelty statute, known as Susie's Law, but the case — in which three dogs starved to death while chained — is drawing little media attention.

In 2016, ARL's Law Enforcement Department inspected nearly 2,300 kennels, farms and pet shops; assisted 151 local police and state agencies; prosecuted 68 individuals involved or accused of animal cruelty / neglect; and was the lead agency on the Northeast's largest animal cruelty case in Westport, MA, which involved more than 1,400 animals.

The Warren County SPCA is a law enforcement agency dedicated to assisting the sheriff and local communities by providing humane law enforcement services to stray, abused and neglected animals, prosecuting cruelty cases and caring, rehabilitating and adopting animals that have been mistreated.

September 2011: Louisville, Kentucky — Training for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors on investigating and prosecuting animal cruelty cases in Kentucky, sponsored by The HSUS

Humane Society of Missouri's animal cruelty investigators understand the nuances of animal abuse law and the criminal justice process for documenting and filing evidence and work directly with sheriff's offices, police departments and prosecuting attorneys to help ensure animal cases are handled in an expedient and professional manner.

County officials could step in and prosecute under local animal cruelty laws, if they have probable cause.

It is our responsibility to educate others of our lack of animal cruelty laws and in some way prosecute those that are animal abusers.

This temporarily restricted fund * supports the efforts of our Humane Law Enforcement team to investigate abuse, prosecute the offenders, save animals in danger and fight animal cruelty.

Canada has no regulations stipulating how animals should be treated on farms outside of federal and provincial animal cruelty laws, and these are only used to prosecute livestock farmers in cases of egregious abuse, such as when animals are neglected to the point of starvation or farm workers are caught torturing animals.

Under the leadership of Law School Professor Joan Schaffner, the GW SALDF works closely with the GW Law Animal Welfare Project, which has composed animal cruelty summaries for the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, which helps district attorneys and other interested parties in nearly every Animal Welfare Project, which has composed animal cruelty summaries for the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, which helps district attorneys and other interested parties in nearly every animal cruelty summaries for the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, which helps district attorneys and other interested parties in nearly every state.

Unfortunately, the perpetrator was not prosecuted for the sexual assault because of a heartbreaking loophole in WA's animal cruelty laws.

It amounts to cruelty, and under Australian law anybody keeping an animal alive in great pain could be prosecuted for mistreating the animal.