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Inside Animal Hoarding: Perspectives from All Stakeholders
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Length: 01:56
Learn how animal hoarding affects many aspects of our community and the multiple stakeholders who are working to address this problem.You will hear the perspective of law enforcement, prosecution, defense counsel, probation officer and treatment provider, and the essential role that each of them play.
Faculty
Honorable Kendrick Wilson, Presiding Judge, Animal Welfare Court - Pima County Consolidated Justice Court
Erica Gee Lynch, Deputy County Attorney, Pima County Attorney's Office
Janet L. Altschuler, Attorney at Law
Christina Snow, Supervisor of Animal Protection Officers, Pima Animal Care Center
Officer Ricardo Chavez, Pima County Adult Probation
Debra Lowther-Hays, L.P.C., Director, Perception Counseling
Chairperson
Honorable Kendrick Wilson, Presiding Judge, Animal Welfare Court - Pima County Consolidated Justice Court
Janet L Altschuler, Janet Altschuler
Ricardo Chavez, Pima County Adult Probation
Debra Lowther-Hayes, Perception Counseling
Erica Gee Lynch, Pima County Attorney's Office
Christina Snow, Pima Animal Care Center
Kendrick A Wilson, Justice of the Peace, Pima County Justice Court
Honorable Kendrick Wilson is the Justice of the Peace for Precinct 9, one of the County's most diverse precincts. Precinct 9 includes the University of Arizona, the City of South Tucson and parts of the Tohono O'odham Nation.
Before being appointed as a Justice of the Peace, Judge Wilson worked as a prosecutor handling domestic violence and animal abuse cases. He worked for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe from 2015 until 2019 and worked from 2010 until 2015 in the Pima County Attorney's Office.
Judge Wilson presides over the Animal Welfare Court, which is the first of its kind in the nation. This problem-solving court focuses on the most serious animal cruelty and neglect misdemeanor cases and emphasizes offender treatment to avoid recidivism.
