Local News in Brief : Citizen Panel Plan on Animal Care Shelved
Siding with representatives of the medical community, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday shelved a plan to create a special citizens commission to oversee the county’s Department of Animal Care and Control.
The board voted 3 to 2 to receive and file the commission proposal, a procedural step that effectively kills the plan by Supervisor Mike Antonovich.
Antonovich had called for the creation of a citizens panel in response to complaints about the management and care of animals at county-run shelters. Brian Berger resigned earlier this month as director of the department after more than a year of accusations of mismanagement and negligence and reports of stolen or missing animals from county shelters.
But representatives of the American Cancer Society, the USC Medical School and the Huntington Medical Research Institutes protested formation of such a commission, arguing that the makeup lacked enough members from the medical community and made it more difficult to find a successor to Berger.
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