I honestly don't find these bills helpful for anyone other than those actually committing animal abuse. I don't think that undercover working to document animal cruelty should be illegal. Documenting it helps in stopping it, therefore I see no reason why it would be considered against the law. Also, it may take more than 1-2 days, as the bills require, to discover mistreating of animals and report it, for those working specifically on animal welfare cases. Not only so, but if caught, the people being accused can easily claim it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing and, after paying a minor fee, continue doing what they're doing. If undercover workers can document these things happening and PROVE it actually occurs more than once (over the course of a few weeks), those mistreating animals can pay the right price for their cruel actions. Not only so, but not being able to investigate mistreatings if you are not working in law enforcement is just dumb. Law enforcement can't know at every point if such things happen and be able to respond immediately. If others, like humane treating of animals organizations, could investigate and just show the proof (pictures, videos, etc.) to the officials, it would make a greater impact on those committing these crimes. It might even scare them into stopping since they would never know if their new employee is someone working to investigate/ stop animal cruelty happening on their farms.
Yup. :|
