Animal-Abuse Registries: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Sex offender registries have become commonplace throughout the nation. Now animal rights advocates are tweaking the idea to come up with animal abuse registries.

New York’s Suffolk County legislature on Wednesday signed off on a measure that would publicly name anyone convicted of animal abuse by having them report to a registry for five years after their conviction.

Most serial killers began as animal abusers, Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Chief Roy Gross told the North Shore Sun. It’s a known fact: people who hurt animals hurt people too — via redwolf.newsvine.com