Agency accesspetOffenders is a civilian registry that supplements official investigations under state and local animal-cruelty law. A records package contains the verbatim report as filed, hash-verified evidence files, and a complete access and handling log, exported as a single PDF.
petOffenders is not a law-enforcement agency and makes no representation as to the admissibility of any record. Admissibility is a determination for your agency and the court. What we can attest to is provenance: who filed a report and when, what evidence accompanied it, every change made to it, and every release of it.
Where a reporter left contact information it is released only under subpoena, and unsealing is a human-approved staff action. Anonymous reports carry no identity at all.
Records still under review, or tied to an active law-enforcement matter, are withheld with a stated reason — so a request cannot tip off a subject mid-enforcement.
Not an agency? The public files reports at report.petoffenders.org. If an animal is in immediate danger, contact local law enforcement or animal control first.
Three short steps. Nothing is released until your agency is verified.
We verify every agency against the official directory before anything is released, and we reply only to the official address.
We verify the agency against the official directory and reply to the official address only — never a personal one.
Requests are reviewed by LaHR staff, usually within one business day.