April is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Awareness Month. The ARL recommends contacting your local or regional authorities immediately if you suspect animal cruelty, but what if you don’t know the phone number for the animal control department? Or what if you’re not sure who’s jurisdiction you’re under? Well, there’s an app for that. Two, actually.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund launched the LiveSafe app last fall. The app marks your audio, video, or text tip with a GPS location, then channels the info you reported to a call center where it is forwarded to the appropriate authorities.
In 2014, The Humane Society of The United States partnered with the National Sheriff’s Association on ICE Black Box, an app with similar functionality.
Hopefully, these apps and others like them will help to bring us one step closer to ending cruelty to animals. And of course, you can always call your local animal control officer or police non-emergency number. Remember: If you see something, say something.
Click HERE for instructions on how to use LiveSafe to report animal cruelty.
Find out more about the ICE Black Box app HERE.
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