Starting in Florida.
Florida is our first focus: one place to search the state’s official animal-abuser registries and follow tracked cruelty cases — instead of checking the statewide database and each county separately.
What’s in scope
Phase one unifies five official Florida government sources — the FDLE statewide Dexter’s Law database and four county registries — alongside manually tracked, notable Florida animal-cruelty prosecutions. It’s web-first, and we’re honest about scope: coverage grows state by state.
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FDLE statewide “Dexter’s Law” database
Statewide conviction database
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Volusia County
Convicted / forfeited list
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Hillsborough County
Convicted registry + enjoined list
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Miami-Dade County
Conviction list (CrueltyWeb)
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Lee County
Convicted registry + enjoined list
Two kinds of list
Not every listing means the same thing, so we don’t flatten them. Most sources are conviction lists. Some counties also keep a separate enjoined list — people a court has barred from owning animals through a civil injunction, which carries different legal weight. We model those as distinct record types and label them plainly.
How records appear here
Records appear only after legal and compliance review, shown verbatim from their official source with attribution. An empty search result does not mean a person is, or is not, in any registry — only that nothing reviewed and published matches. For the full sourcing rules, see our methodology.