205 records isn't
the real number.
There are an estimated 10,000–30,000 felony animal-cruelty convictions in the U.S. every year, plus hundreds of thousands of misdemeanor pleas. Most are invisible to the public — tucked inside county court portals, search-only registries, or paywalled federal PACER records.
Closing that gap requires data-sharing agreements with the organizations that already hold the data: national welfare groups, state animal-control networks, and the handful of sheriff's offices that maintain statutory registries.
This page exists so those organizations can see who we are, what we offer, and how to open a conversation.
Download the pre-written outreach letter, fill in your details, and send it to any of the target orgs below. Or share this page's URL directly with their partnerships team.
Download PDF pitch (1-pager)Every partner-sourced record is tagged with a 'Data-sharing partner · [Your Org]' label visible to the public.
Partners receive API-level access plus anonymized quarterly aggregate analytics for advocacy reporting.
Formal written agreement; existing takedown workflow protects partners from legal exposure when a record is challenged.
Who we're already talking to — and who we'd like to.
One endpoint. Full attribution. Audit trail.
- Partner signs MOU + sends CSV or JSON export of named-defendant convictions.
- Paws on Record admin posts the batch to
POST /api/admin/partners/import. - Each record is upserted with
partner_org,partner_agreement_ref, and an immutablepartner_imported_attimestamp. - Public registry surfaces the partner name as the source label. Takedown / correction requests route back to the partner's point of contact.
- Quarterly aggregate analytics (counts, states, crime types — zero PII) shipped back to the partner.