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Commonwealth—s Attorney and animal-control officials urge Smyth County to create searchable animal-cruelty registry
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Commonwealth—s Attorney Bucky Blevins and local animal-control officials asked the Smyth County Board of Supervisors to consider creating a publicly searchable animal-cruelty registry that would list people convicted of certain animal-cruelty offenses.
Commonwealth—s Attorney Bucky Blevins on behalf of the Commonwealth—s Office asked the Smyth County Board of Supervisors to consider creating a public animal-cruelty registry that would list people convicted of certain animal-cruelty offenses.
"Anyone who's been convicted of the felony offense of animal cruelty can be placed on this public searchable registry, and they will remain there for a period of at least 15 years," Blevins told the board, citing a statutory provision he said authorizes localities to adopt such a registry.
Blevins introduced Animal Control Chief Chris Bennett and defense attorney…
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