An animal-welfare transparency platform.
ProtectedPets brings official government animal-abuse registries and public court records into one place — shown verbatim, attributed to their source, and reported in neutral language. It is not a registry.
What we do
ProtectedPets is built around three things:
- Case tracking — following animal-cruelty prosecutions through public court records, from charge to verdict to sentencing, reported in neutral court language.
- Official registry search — a single front end over government-maintained animal-abuser registries, so you don’t have to hunt across dozens of separate agency websites.
- Shelter tooling — adoption-screening checks for jurisdictions that legally require them. This comes later, after the core platform is established.
What we are not
ProtectedPets does not keep its own list of accused people. We do not label anyone. We publish what official government sources already publish — re-presented clearly, with attribution and a link back to the original record. The word “abuser” only ever appears as the attributed status from an official government registry, never as our own conclusion about a person.
And there are two lines we will never cross: no home addresses, and no maps of people — not displayed, not stored for display, not derivable. That is the difference between transparency and doxxing, and our data model is built without an address field so the line cannot be crossed by accident.
Why an aggregator, not a registry
The ASPCA opposes animal-abuser registries — arguing they are expensive, sparsely populated, create a false sense of security, and show no evidence of deterrence. We agree the answer isn’t another registry. But the records that already exist — statewide databases, county registries, public court dockets — are scattered and hard to use. Bringing official public records together, faithfully and neutrally, is journalism, not a registry. That’s the gap ProtectedPets fills.
Who we are
ProtectedPets is a project of Pagani Enterprises LLC, a Florida company. Our approach is shaped by a simple principle: the safeguards — official sources only, verbatim attribution, neutral reporting, and a real correction process — are what make this responsible, not the corporate wrapper around it.
Want to understand exactly how we source and publish records? Read our methodology and our sources. If a record is wrong or should be removed, request a correction.