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Eleven U.S. states have pending animal abuse registry legislation:
Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Columbine High School shooters are among the infamous criminals who had a history of hurting animals before they went on to target humans, a tendency that's part of what's behind a movement to create public online registries of known animal abusers.
New York is among 11 states with animal abuse registry bills pending in their legislatures, following Tennessee, which started its in 2016 along with a growing number of municipalities in recent years, including New York City, and the counties that include Chicago and Tampa, Florida.
"Animal abuse is a bridge crime," said the sponsor of New York's bill, Republican state Sen. Jim Tedisco, who noted that Nikolas Cruz, accused of killing 17 people in the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting on Feb. 14, reportedly also had a history of shooting small animals.
While the main goal of collecting names of convicted animal abusers is to prevent them from being able to adopt or purchase other animals, registry backers say such lists could also be a way to raise red flags about people who may commit other violent crimes ranging from domestic violence to mass shootings. But some animal welfare advocates, mostly notably the ASPCA, question how effective they can really be.
[Ed's Comment - Original link unreliable, so I have added additional links]
Additional Sources:
- http://www.vmdtoday.com/news/animal-abuser-registry-legislation-sought-stalled
- https://www.navs.org/state-animal-abuser-registries-proposed-2018/
- http://www.ladbible.com/news/animals-news-us-states-and-counties-are-registering-animal-abuse-like-sex-offences-20180218
- https://nhes.org/animal-abuser-registries/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @01:31AM
These laws have nothing to do with that other than as marketing to get them passed. If you want to track such people then you want them to continue to have pets so you can track how much they're abusing them. These laws are one strike and you're out forever of having a pet near you. You won't find out who likes abusing animals thus they'll be further underground when they 'suddenly' come out and kill a bunch of people.
If they actually wanted to keep these kids from becoming serial killers then the laws would be proposing educational classes to teach these people how to respect others. Instead it's the expect opposite. Here's a new list of people we're legally compelled to oppress and thus in turn cause them to hate society even more. These types of lists tighten the lid on a pressure cooker allowing it to explode with far more force rather than adding a pressure relief valve like they should.