The Florida Animal Rescue Act also includes important safeguards to combat previous opposition that rescue groups and shelters can be hoarders. Although this objection has no basis in fact, the Act allows that an agency or shelter may refuse to include in, or may remove a rescue group from, its registry if a current director, officer, staff member, or volunteer of the rescue group has been convicted or charged with a crime relating to animal cruelty or neglect. As an additional safeguard, a shelter may require a rescue group to provide monthly, for public inspection, data which includes the number of animals that have been placed with the rescue group from an agency or shelter, the number that have been adopted, and the number that remain in the care of the rescue group.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:32:41 +0000
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