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June 20, 2005
A
recent article in The Arizona Republic discusses Maricopa
County's newly formed animal cruelty task force, called the
Law Enforcement for Animal Protection Task Force.
The
task force will meet June 27, and organizers say the first
order of business will be to set up a telephone hotline for
accepting animal cruelty reports. Next will be creating a
website for the public to track animal cruelty cases being
prosecuted and offer other information related to animal cruelty
laws.
The
group says it also wants to improve communications among all
the agencies in the system and increase training for law enforcement
and justice-system personnel on the issue of animal cruelty
law enforcement and prosecution.
To
read the complete article, go to the newspaper's website at:
www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0620phx-taskforce.html
Pima
County has a similar group in the Animal Cruelty Task Force
of Southern Arizona. For information, go to the group's website
at www.act-az.org.
ADLA's
board president, Stephanie Nichols-Young, is quoted in the
article. She is an attorney in private practice and leads
the Animal Law Section of the State Bar of Arizona. For a
complete list of state bar animal law sections, go to the
Animal Legal Defense Fund's website at www.aldf.org/associations.asp?sect=resources.
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