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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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May 22, 2025
Owners of ‘dangerous’ dogs will need $100,000 liability insurance under newly signed law
Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix | Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law Wednesday bringing harsher penalties and restrictions for owners of dogs that severely injure or kill people. The bill, known as the “Pam Rock Act,” honors a mail carrier who was mauled to death by five dogs in Putnam County in 2022. Starting July 1, owners of dogs that have attacked humans....
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May 21, 2025
Dangerous dogs bill signed into Florida law
Johnathan Grass, WFTV | On Wednesday morning, Gov. Ron DeSantis put his signature on a new law to add more oversight and accountability to dangerous dog owners. The bill, known as the “Pam Rock Act,” contains the following provision: An animal must be confiscated and impounded when it is being investigated as a dangerous dog and has killed a person...
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May 21, 2025
‘Pam Rock Act’ becomes latest bill passed in Florida to protect against dog attack
News4Jax | The "Pam Rock Act" is officially a Florida law that will protect against dog attacks. The bill was named after Pamela Rock, a 62-year-old mail carrier who was mauled by several dogs in Putnam County nearly three years ago. It was one of many bills that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law on Wednesday. Rock’s family made a continued push to legislators...
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May 9, 2025
Commentary: Adding teeth to Florida’s dog-bite laws
Moe Hewitt, Orlando Sentinel | The Pam Rock Act isn’t just a legislative win — it’s a public-safety necessity. It ensures that those of us fighting on behalf of victims finally have more than sympathy to offer. We’ll have leverage. We’ll have legal ground to pursue justice. And we’ll hopefully deter more reckless behavior in the process. DeSantis should sign this bill...
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May 7, 2025
She Was Killed by a Pack of Dogs While Delivering Mail. Now, Florida Is Changing the Law
Melissa Hernandez, St. Johns Citizen | Pamela Rock had only been delivering mail for seven months. The 61-year-old joined the U.S. Postal Service in January 2022, making her rounds along the dirt roads of rural Putnam County. But on Aug. 21, 2022, what should have been a typical Sunday afternoon of completing her route, Rock’s mail truck broke down while...
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May 1, 2025
Florida bill on DeSantis' desk has chance to protect you, your pets from dangerous dogs
Claire Alfree, First Coast News | A Florida bill inspired by the death of a Putnam County postal worker is now awaiting the governor's signature after unanimously passing through the state senate. The bill, HB 593, has been called the "dangerous dog" bill. Back in 2022, Pamela Rock was attacked by five dogs in Putnam County. The 61-year-old died from her injuries...
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April 30, 2025
Legislators united in approving dog behavior law
Palatka Daily News, Sarah Cavacini | A state bill inspired by the harrowing death of an Interlachen mail carrier was approved in both chambers of the Capitol within the past week. The Pamela Rock Act, formally known as House Bill 593 and Senate Bill 572, is waiting on Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature to become a law that goes into effect July 1. The bill, which passed...
April 29, 2025
"Dangerous dog" bill one step closer to becoming law in Florida
Julia Falcon, CBS News | A bill aimed at improving how Florida identifies and regulates dangerous dogs is one step closer to becoming a law. House Bill 593, or The Pam Rock Act, was named after a mail carrier who was mauled to death in Putnam County in 2022. The bill passed unanimously in the Florida Senate on Monday. The measure will now return to...
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April 25, 2025
House passes ‘Pam Rock Act’ regulating dangerous dogs
Dan Scanlan, JaxToday | The Florida House has unanimously passed a bill (HB 593) that requires the impounding of dogs that have injured or killed someone. It also requires owners of dogs classified as dangerous to buy $100,000 in liability insurance. An identical bill is working it way through the Senate (SB 572) but has not reached a final vote. The bills honor...
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April 18, 2025
Necessary Changes: A Push for Stronger Dog Bite Laws
The Legal Examiner | According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, close to 60 million households include a dog. Unfortunately, the popularity of canines has a downside. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that more than four million Americans are bitten by dogs every year. In addition, a report by the United States...
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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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August 20, 2023
Pam Rock Petition: Grant Justice now (for Pammy in Florida)
Change.org | Your signature will help to compel the state of Florida to FULLY investigate our sister Pamela’s tragic death. And then hold the culpable accountable. This would bring her Justice … instead of just helping the guilty to evade justice. Our sister Pamela was a mail carrier in rural Putnam County, Florida. But in August 2022, she died after a savage attack...
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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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