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Lakewood public safety panel and volunteers back codifying TNR program with training and reporting requirements
Summary
After months of community input, Lakewood’s law department presented a draft ordinance to codify a trap‑neuter‑return (TNR) program that keeps TNR under city oversight while requiring training, appointment scheduling for sterilization and vaccinations, ear‑tipping rules, and annual reporting by caregivers.
Lakewood’s Public Safety Committee on April 7 heard a law department draft that would codify the city’s Trap‑Neuter‑Return (TNR) program and keep program rules and caregiver reporting inside the municipal code rather than only in administrative policy.
Assistant Law Director Swallow told the committee the administration’s draft “makes it clear that there is a TNR program available in Lakewood, but it also still requires that any individuals trapping have some training to make sure that they’re doing this properly, safely, and in a humane manner for the animals,” and that the code would include definitions (community cat, community caregiver, ear tipping, trap‑neuter‑return) and operational rules.
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