Your Tax Dollars At Work

On December 28 Michigan’s Muskegon Chronicle published a letter announcing a January 26 “daylong training course” for law-enforcement personnel, run by the Humane Society of the United States. The letter’s author specifically disinvited the general public, saying that the event would be “confidential” in nature:

Due to the confidential nature of the material presented in the class, enrollment is restricted to law enforcement officers, prosecutors and judges, and animal control, humane investigators and veterinarians, if they are employed or contracted with a government agency (sheriff's department, police department, health department, etc.) within a three-county area (Muskegon, Newaygo and Ottawa) …

[P]lease contact officials in your county and encourage them to make attendance at this seminar a top priority.

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A super-duper-important law enforcement training seminar that’s too top-secret for taxpayers to see? And it’s run by HSUS?

What’s going on here? The Chronicle printed two letters from readers yesterday morning asking that question, and we’ve done our own digging. The bottom line seems to be that HSUS doesn’t do anything for free. And our hunt for the money turned up the beginnings of a compelling paper trail that begins and ends in Washington, DC.



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