Charlotte Laws (born May 11, 1960) is an American author, Los Angeles politician, talk show host, community activist, and animal rights advocate. As a former actress, some of her credits can be found under her Screen Actors Guild name Missy Laws.
Laws has been a weekly commentator on the NBC show "The Filter with Fred Roggin" since August 2009, and she is a co-host on the Internet show "Every Way Woman." From October 2007 - September 2010, Laws hosted her own Los Angeles TV show called Uncommon Sense. Laws and her guests discussed current events.
Laws is a former member of the Greater Valley Glen Council in Valley Glen, California. She was termed out of office in 2012, after serving four two-year terms. She was the first politician to run on the platform that she represents all beings in her district, not just the humans whom she maintains are the elite. She promotes moving from a democracy to what she calls an omniocracy, a government with representation for all living beings.
In May 2006, Laws was appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to serve on the city’s 912 Commission, which was also called the Neighborhood Council Review Commission. In 1999, the Los Angeles City Charter mandated that a commission would be formed seven years later to review the progress, successes and failures of the city’s Neighborhood Council system.
Laws is the founder and president of two organizations: the Directors of Animal Welfare (DAW) and the League for Earth and Animal Protection (LEAP). In 2006, Laws was the recipient of the Los Angeles Animal Humanitarian Award. Laws is a vegan and an advocate of that diet.
In January 2012, Laws began an FBI investigation of Hunter Moore who ran the revenge porn website Is Anyone Up? Laws determined a large number of the photos on the site had been hacked. She appeared on Nightline and the Dr. Drew (TV series) with Moore to discuss the issue. The investigation is pending.
Moore removed his website in the midst of the FBI investigation, but announced on November 28, 2012, that he would start a new site, that would more despicable than the old one, and would include the home addresses of victims. This prompted Laws to make Moore's home address public on Twitter, and Moore threatened to ruin her life. She got backlash from his followers, a death threat and a stalker appeared at her home. The underground group "Anonymous" came to her aid, waging war on Moore, hacking into his servers and posting much of his personal information on the Internet.
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