In the category of Reports of Dubious Utility, the Animal Legal Defense Fund "...announces the release of its annual report ranking the animal protection laws of every state based on their relative strength and general comprehensiveness. In addition to all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and other U.S. territories are included this year. This report – the only one of its kind in the nation – is based on a detailed comparative analysis of each jurisdiction, researching fourteen distinct categories of animal protection laws throughout more than 3,400 pages of statutes. The ranking groups each jurisdiction into a top, middle or bottom tier, and includes a listing of the best five and worst five states."
Based on fourteen categories of criteria that are listed but not explained, Alaska is ranked in the bottom tier, but not the bottom five. How the bottom tier is generated they do not say. The only explanatory text is a bulleted list of reasons for each state in the top and bottom five listing examples of why they were there. Bottom line: no light shed on Alaska's ranking, and if you're not a top or bottom five state the information value is approximately zero.
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