• It is important that you not respond directly to an animal rights group or any individual attacking you or your work.
• Legal Resources for Managing Security at Private Residences & Crisis Management Guide, Source: National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR)
• Common Animal Rights Strategies and Responses, Tips for Investigators Who Find Themselves the Target of an Animal Rights Campaign, and Suggestions for Assisting a Scientist who is the Focus of an Animal Rights Campaign, Source: Americans for Medical Progress (AMP)
• Quick Start Sheet, Source: Modified from Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
• The ACNP Animal Research Committee (ARC) is also here to provide guidance and assistance. (contact information: acnp@acnp.org or (615) 324-2360)

• Do NOT respond directly
• Contact your institution and make a plan of action
• Contact your funding source

Contact the police, your institution and funding source.

Contact the police, your institution, and the program officer for your funding source.

• Contact the local and campus police
• Contact your institution and funding source once you are safe
• Crisis Management Guide (NABR)
• Common Animal Rights Strategies and Responses (AMP)
• Tips for managing morale during an animal rights campaign (AMP)
• Tips for combatting home harassment (AMP)

• Please visit the Responding to Freedom of Information Act Requests on the SfN website.
• Please also see the facts and resources from NABR and SfN.

Work with your institution’s Public Relations Office to have ready a one-paragraph statement about your research, how the animals are treated, and compliance of your work with institutional and national guidelines.

Do NOT respond directly to animal rights activists.

• If you not are already aware of whom to contact at your institution, find out as soon as possible. It is important to have the most current information regarding your institution’s plan and point of contact should you find yourself under attack.
• Please see the Quick Start Sheet, modified from Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

• Engage your University Representatives and develop talking points.
• Please visit the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) website on engaging the media: best practices
• Tips for communicating your research on social media (PLOS BIOLOGY)

• Institutions should have an administrative plan in place should one of their researchers become attacked by an animal rights group. The researcher should know whom to contact as soon as they become under attack (e.g. institution leader, security, public relations, etc.). It is important to talk to your institution’s leadership to learn your institution’s plan of action.
• Here are some resources that your institution can use if you become under attack and steps to recover.  Source: Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
• Materials and plans every institution should have on hand in case of an emergency. Source: Americans for Medical Progress (AMP)

• Americans for Medical Progress (AMP): call (202) 624-8810
• Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR): info@fbresearch.org or call (202) 457-0654
• National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR): info@nabr.org or call (202) 857-0540
• Society for Neuroscience (SfN): advocacy@sfn.org or call (202) 962-4000

The ACNP Animal Research Committee is also here to provide guidance and assistance. (contact information: acnp@acnp.org or (615) 324-2360)

• Please visit the Responding to Freedom of Information Act Requests on the SfN website.
• Please also see the facts and resources from NABR and SfN.

The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act of 2006 is a United States federal law that prohibits any person from engaging in certain conduct “for the purpose of damaging or interfering with the operations of an animal enterprise.”  Please visit the National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR) website for additional information.