Neglect Act News Today

On Monday, the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) seized neglected pigs, ponies, donkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, and poultry from a breeder in Noord-Brabant who was previously banned from breeding dogs because the breeder neglected them. The NVWA closed the breeding business and banned the breeder from keeping any animals at all.

A decades-old New Mexico law is raising new questions from advocates and some legislators behind the baby boxes in the state.

ESPN reports on more NMSU athletics problems

Lawsuit takes aim at CYFD confidentiality

The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office ruled on Monday that the City of Rio Rancho cannot withhold police records involving juveniles.The decision took the form of a letter dated March 7, addressed to City Attorney Greg Lauer and copied to Observer news editor Argen Marie Duncan. In it, NMAG’s Office Senior Civil Counsel Olga M. Serafimova writes that the city’s policy of refusing to release police reports and 911 calls related to incidents in which a minor was a victim or suspect violat...

>> over the past ten years, were talking probably over 600 kids have died in this way. so i am just reserving judgment. i am not convinced that this was murder. it could have been an accident. >> mark, you say this is an example of prosecutors using what he called he didnt act right evidence. what do you mean? >> let me tell you something. the idea that somehow you have 11,000 people, the people who are on the scene who saw this and are eyewitnesss to his reaction, and then the officers didnt li...

Youre saying, youre basing this on how other people thought he was reacting, passer byes, people -- so why are they right and the police wrong in this case? >> neither way. i dont think that you can base it on either one. i think that you have here at least what has been reported, they havent at the hearing today, they didnt bring out anything that said there is any history of abuse. they didnt say there was motive. they didnt say this was a bitter custody battle. they didnt say anything to the ...