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A variety of news articles covering the Pam Rock Act legislation in Florida and the mauling death of United States Postal Carrier Pamela Rock on August 22, 2022 by five vicious at large dogs in Putnam County, Florida.​
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August 26, 2024
Putnam County post office renamed in honor of mail carrier fatally attacked by dogs
News4Jax | A United States Postal Service office in Melrose was renamed Monday in honor of a mail carrier who was fatally mauled by a pack of dogs in Putnam County in 2022. When Pam Rock’s postal car broke down on Aug. 21, 2022, while she was delivering mail on a dirt road, five dogs escaped their fenced-in yard and attacked her. The dogs’ owner had previously...
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August 26, 2024
Post office in Melrose named after 61-year-old mail carrier who was killed in dog attack
Tobie Perkins, First Coast News | A Melrose postal service building was officially renamed the Pamela Jane Rock Post Office Monday, honoring a postal carrier who died in 2022. Rock was delivering mail in Interlachen when she was attacked by five dogs, and she later died of her injuries. She was 61 years old. Family and friends came together to honor Rock's life...
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August 26, 2024
Pam Rock's passing leads to Melrose Post Office named in her honor
Clay Today | The U.S. post office was named in honor of a mail carrier last Monday who was mauled to death by a pack of dogs when her postal car broke down on a dirt road on Aug. 21, 2022. Pam Rock's family said she was transported to UF Shands Hospital in Gainesville. Doctors attempted to save her life by amputating her right leg, right arm and left ear...
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May 16, 2024
Letter carrier killed by dogs honored in Washington
Clay Today | President Joe Biden last week signed U.S. Rep. Aaron Bean’s bill to rename the Melrose post office after Pamela “Pam” Jane Rock, a letter carrier who was killed after being mauled by five pit bulls after her USPS vehicle broke down in 2022 on a dirt road. “Pam had a servant’s heart, and it was obvious in the way she lived her life. While her time on this earth...​
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May 10, 2024
First Coast News | A Northeast Florida post office will be renamed after local letter carrier Pamela “Pam” Jane Rock, who died in 2022 after being attacked by dogs while delivering mail. Rock's vehicle broke down in Interlachen on Aug. 21, 2022, and she was attacked by five dogs until a neighbor shot at the ground to scare the dogs away. She was flown to Shands Hospital...
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April 25, 2024
Action News Jax Investigates finds an increase in aggressive dog attacks
Annette Gutierrez, Action News Jax | Action News Jax Investigates found an increase in aggressive dog attacks in Northeast Florida. We featured a few on our newscasts. A dog bit a Jacksonville woman while she was walking home in March 2021; three dogs attacked a horse in Putnam County this year; and a pack of stray dogs killed a cat in Southside Estates last year...
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February 9, 2024
Florida bill tweaks law putting down ‘dangerous dogs,’ set for more committee stops before vote
Eric Daugherty, Florida Voice | Florida legislation cracking down on “dangerous dogs” still has additional committee consideration in the House and Senate before lawmakers take a final vote on the proposal. Called the “Pam Rock Act,” the bill is named after a woman who died due to a mauling by a pack of dogs in 2022. It aims to help victims of dog attacks...
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January 31, 2024
House panel muzzles dangerous dogs after ‘gruesome’ attack on mail carrier
A.G. Gancarski, Florida Politics | A committee in the House moved forward a potential legislative solution to a canine conundrum. Rep. Bobby Payne’s measure (HB 873) advanced unanimously by the Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee, would impose new parameters on how the state handles so-called dangerous dogs....
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January 30, 2024
Bill To Rename Melrose Post Office In Honor Of Putnam County's Pamela Jane Rock Passes House
United States Congress, Washington DC | Today, U.S. Congressman Aaron Bean (FL-04) and U.S. Congresswoman Kat Cammack (FL-03) unanimously passed their bill to rename the Melrose, Florida post office after local letter carrier Pamela "Pam" Jane Rock, who tragically died after sustaining injuries while delivering mail in northeast Florida...
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January 30, 2024
Florida lawmakers try to form 'dangerous dog registry': 'We need to do much more'
Ray Lewis, WEAR News | A Florida bill creating a “dangerous dog registry” progressed through a state Senate committee on Friday. The “Pam Rock Act” would provide residents with a searchable database of dogs containing information regarding dogs deemed hazardous. The dog's name, photograph, chip, sterilization and rabies vaccination records and evidence...
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January 4, 2024
Florida bill aims to make 'dangerous dogs' registry, add tougher penalties for owners
Senait Gebregiorgis, WESH | A new Florida bill wants to create a registry for dangerous dogs where people can check if the animals are living in their neighborhoods. The bill would give owners tougher penalties to prevent violent or deadly attacks. According to the Florida Department of Health, each year, more than 600 Floridians are hospitalized because...
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June 30, 2023
My Sister Was Mauled to Death by Five Pit Bulls in Florida
Tom Rock, Newsweek | Pamela Jane Rock was the youngest of the 14 Rock children. She was born and raised in Plantation, Florida. She showed her commitment to helping others from an early age. After graduating from the University of Florida, she served in the Alachua County Women, Infants & Children (WIC) program. She also served for three years in...
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March 16, 2023
Anne Maxwell, News 4 Jax | The family of a Putnam County mail carrier fatally attacked by dogs in August is now demanding accountability. The News4JAX I-TEAM previously obtained documents showing the dogs’ owner was not charged in part because he had tried unsuccessfully to surrender them to Putnam County Animal Control twice — including just 10 days...
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March 2, 2023
State: No charges in dog attack
Sarah Cavacini, Palatka Daily News | A State Attorney’s Office investigation into the dog-attack death of a postal worker in Interlachen revealed the dogs’ owner made numerous attempts to get rid of them prior to the fatal attack. After a public records request by the Palatka Daily News on Wednesday, the State Attorney’s Office in the 7th Judicial Circuit...
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March 1, 2023
No charges filed in death of postal worker mauled by dogs in Putnam County
Cheyenne Cole, First Coast News | The State Attorney’s Office is not filing charges against the owner of dogs that killed a woman in August 2022 in Putnam County. Pamela Rock, 61, was delivering mail in Interlachen when five dogs got loose and attacked her. The State Attorney’s office said Edgar Jowers won’t be charged in the death of Rock because...
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February 28, 2023
Investigators find no wrongdoing after postal worker dies in Putnam County dog attack
Anne Maxwell, News 4 Jax | Pamela Rock was mauled by five dogs that got out of a fenced-in yard after the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said the postal worker’s mail truck had broken down on a dirt road. The I-TEAM has learned that federal and local investigations didn’t find wrongdoing by Rock’s employer or the dogs’ owner, respectively. The State Attorney’s...
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