I don't really want this about which specific group is for the law and which specific group is against it. Just because a group you like or dislike is for or against a law doesn't make it necessarily good or bad. Just to make it clear, I do not personally believe at all, that the HSUS wants to hurt the home breeder. I think they are very much interested in responsible breeding. If you wish to sit back and think the commercial pet breeding industry is doing nothing to stop these laws, that your prerogative. Businesses spend a great deal of time and money on how to make more money. That's there job. I haven't read what any group has said about the law, only Yorkietalk's group.
I'm not a lawyer; I haven't read that many laws before, and I don't know why they write them the way the do. I think the issue of parole was so that a person convicted of certain crimes and on parole could not work with animals. There is also a problem that's been on the news a lot lately, and that concerns an abuser who kills the family pet if the wife won't return. This part might address something like that.
(l) As a condition of parole, the parole board may prohibit a parolee from owning, harboring, or training an animal, and, if the parole board prohibits a parolee from having direct or indirect contact with an individual, the parole board may also prohibit the parolee from having direct or indirect contact with any animal belonging to the individual.
So, in other words, if you have a restraining order out on someone who is on parole, the parole board may also prohibit that person from having contact with your animals. Also, it doesn't say that they have to prohibit, it says that they may. This give the court the power to do what they see fit, in indiviual cases.
As I stated before, only the parts of the law written in bold type are new, and this was the only part in the "parole" section written in bold type. While reading the Bill it makes more sense if you understand which parts are being amended. They just want to amend the law they already have. Most of the law is written in regular type and that has been on the books for a while. |