EVAN SYMON: The Ojai City Council voted 4-1… to recognize the legal rights of elephants, becoming the first city in the United States to give legal rights to a non-human animal… City Councilwoman Leslie Rule first proposed the ordinance earlier this year. Specifically, she wrote the ordinance due to how elephants in Ojai were once … Continue reading OJAI: California city first in the U.S. to pass historic animal rights legislation