{"id":52606,"date":"2024-12-16T12:41:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=52606"},"modified":"2024-12-16T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:42:43","slug":"grady-judds-polk-county-animal-control-punishes-animal-rescues-for-criticizing-their-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/12\/16\/grady-judds-polk-county-animal-control-punishes-animal-rescues-for-criticizing-their-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Grady Judd’s Polk County Animal Control punishes animal rescues for criticizing their policies \u2026\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Polk County Animal Control punishes animal rescues for criticizing their policies which lack affordable spay\/neuter and vaccination programs and above all prioritize killing over lifesaving.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These actions silence rescuers, leaving them fearful and unable to speak out as more animals are condemned to death.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Let us remind Polk County Animal Control \u2014 and every law enforcement agency \u2014 that the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently upheld the First Amendment right to criticize government policies and demand that the government correct its wrongs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Speech on public issues occupies the highest rung of the hierarchy of First Amendment values and is entitled to special protection.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polk County Animal Control punishes animal rescues for criticizing their policies which lack affordable spay\/neuter and vaccination programs and above all prioritize killing over lifesaving. These actions silence rescuers, leaving… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNFwvMTJcLzQ3MDI0ODEyNV8xMDE2MTM1OTQzNTQyNDEzMl80NjI4NTQyNjQ4MDg2MTY0NTM4X24ud2VicD9maXQ9ODI3JTJDMTAyNCZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IkdyYWR5IEp1ZGQmIzgyMTc7cyBQb2xrIENvdW50eSBBbmltYWwgQ29udHJvbCBwdW5pc2hlcyBhbmltYWwgcmVzY3VlcyBmb3IgY3JpdGljaXppbmcgdGhlaXIgcG9saWNpZXMgXHUyMDI2XHUyMDI2LiIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.UTVDg_jWX7Iqo2KYGCVkuqzvcoGTgZUUwwdtvQGT2YYMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":52608,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/470248125_10161359435424132_4628542648086164538_n.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[10519],"class_list":["post-52606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-grady-judds-polk-county-animal-control-punishes-animal-rescues-for-criticizing-their-policies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52609,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52606\/revisions\/52609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}