Find out where BSL has been repealed, rejected, and which areas are behind the times when it comes to science and treating all dog owners equally. Our interactive map gives you the current status and history of breed-specific legislation in the U.S.

Current map and listing of states which have breed specific legislation.

Click on an individual pin to view detailed information about that location’s BSL history. Use the map legend on the left to filter the data points based current BSL outcome. Use the search function to quickly find details about a location.

NOTE: In some cases, planned labs are not shown in the map because their location has not been finalized. Additional information can be found in the Methodology. Map design by Erik English.

Breed-specific legislation, or BSL, can be a wide-ranging set of laws that prevent or restrict dog ownership based on systemic bias against people and unfounded stereotypes about a variety of dogs. Learn more about what BSL is, and how to keep it out of your community.

2015年5月6日 · This map is part of a project called the BSL Census. BSL stands for breed-specific legislation -- laws and regulations, enacted at the city or county level, that ban or restrict the keeping of dogs by breed, typically targeting pit bulls.

BSL, also known as breed-discriminatory legislation (BDL), bans or restricts certain types of dogs based on their appearance because they are perceived as “dangerous” breeds or types of dogs. A breed ban usually requires that all dogs of a certain appearance (”targeted breed”) be removed from the area where the BSL has been implemented.

Breed-specific legislation, or BSL, can be a wide-ranging set of laws that prevent or restrict dog ownership based on systemic bias against people and unfounded stereotypes about a variety of dogs.

Breed-specific legislation (BSL) is the blanket term for laws that either regulate or ban certain dog breeds in an effort to decrease dog attacks on humans and other animals. However, the problem of dangerous dogs will not be remedied by the “quick fix” of breed-specific laws—or, as they should truly be called, breed-discriminatory laws.

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