Brandon Cruz

2 days ago | nypost.com | Brandon Cruz

This bark has bite. Long Island officials are continuing their crackdown on animal abusers, slamming Albany for its controversial cashless bail laws and calling for reform so that violent pet owners are kept behind bars. Nassau County DA Anne Donnelly, a Republican, announced Monday she was joining efforts to reform the state’s cashless bail so that judges could keep “the most vicious and depraved animal abusers on the face of the earth” locked up until their trials.

2 days ago | nypost.com | Brandon Cruz

More than 20 school districts across Long Island were hit by cyber hackers leaving more than 10,000 students’ records and personal info vulnerable to criminals, state education records revealed. The widespread data breaches and digital intrusions — 28 Long Island incidents were self-reported to the state last year — have cybersecurity experts sounding the alarm about schools nationwide increasingly becoming targets for identity thieves, ransomware gangs and data extortionists.

3 days ago | nypost.com | Brandon Cruz

A former top aide to ex-Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has been slapped with an ethics fine for applying for a high-ranking job at a nonprofit seeking big bucks from a county fund she helped oversee. Ryan Attard — who served as Bellone’s chief of staff and represented his office on the county’s Opioid Funding Selection Committee — was still on the county’s payroll when she applied for a post with the Family & Children’s Association.

3 days ago | nypost.com | Brandon Cruz

Suffolk County animal abusers will now face jail time or steep fines if they continue to have pets, according to a new law signed last week — after a local cat house of horrors was uncovered. The county legislature voted to make pet-owning by convicted animal abusers a Class A misdemeanor, a crime that carries penalties of up to a year in jail or a $1,000 fine. “This bill will protect animals, and that’s why I’m signing it,” Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine told reporters at the H.

3 days ago | nypost.com | Brandon Cruz

A Long Island high-school lacrosse coach “sextorted” at least 30 boys, including a 13-year-old, authorities say. The crimes allegedly committed by Valley Stream High School assistant boys coach Joseph Garofalo, 20, were so sickening that federal Judge James Wicks denied him bail at a hearing last month — despite the suspect’s family begging and offering up more than $1.5 million in property as collateral.