Todd Stosuy

Officer Todd Stosuy has been the Field Services Manager for the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter in California since 2006 and has been an Animal Control Officer since 2003. Todd has served on the Board of Directors for the National Animal Care and Control Association (NACA) since 2008. He served as Vice President of NACA from 2010-2011 and President from 2011 to 2015. Todd has two undergraduate degrees from Rutgers University in Administration of Justice and Sociology with a minor in Criminology. During college Todd worked as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) with an urban rescue squad. After graduating he worked as a first grade teacher in urban Philadelphia. This combination of college degrees and jobs working with underprivileged people has brought Todd to a unique position of enforcing animal related laws while also understanding and serving disadvantaged residents and the pets they love. Todd believes in working within the community and understanding and respecting the community’s culture, while at the same time trying to transform the challenges of that culture into strengths for the sake of the animals. During his career Todd has served as Incident Commander for the Animal Shelter during numerous large scale disasters within his community and has worked “boots on the ground” doing animal rescue in Haiti with the Animal Rescue Coalition of Haiti (ARCH). Todd has presented dozens of workshops across the United States, as well as Brazil and Australia, and currently works as a consultant for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) Pets For Life Program. Todd worked with the State of Delaware Office of Animal Welfare in developing and implementing a Community Policing Program for all animal control officers in the State.