[NFBF-L] FW: [ShowMePaws_MGDU.org] Good News!

[Kathy Davis]

It's about time! Thanks so much for this good news about service animals
Pat. 

Kathy


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This is some good news. Finally movement toward reducing the number of fake
service animals .

Subject: HUD SECRETARY REQUESTS THAT THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION & CONSUMER
PROTECTION BUREAU INVESTIGATE WEBSITES SELLING ASSISTANCE ANIMAL
DOCUMENTATION
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HUD SECRETARY CARSON REQUESTS THAT FTC CHAIRMAN SIMMONS & CONSUMER
PROTECTION BUREAU DIRECTOR SIMITH INVESTIGATE WEBSITES SELLING ASSISTANCE
ANIMAL DOCUMENTATION

HUD No. 19-162

HUD Public Affairs

FOR RELEASE

Friday, November 8, 2019

WASHINGTON - Recently, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) Secretary Ben Carson wrote to Chairman of the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Joseph J. Simmons and Director of the Bureau
of Consumer Protection Andrew Smith requesting that the FTC investigate
certain websites that may be selling assistance animal documentation.

"These certificates are not an acceptable substitute for authentic
documentation provided by medical professionals when appropriate,"
said Secretary Carson. "These websites that sell assistance animal
certificates are often also misleading by implying that they are affiliated
with the federal government. Nothing could be further from the truth. Their
goal is to convince individuals with disabilities that they need to spend
hundreds of dollars on worthless documentation to keep their assistance
animal in their homes."

https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_19_162