Board hears petition from Dr. Kenneth C. Allison after record‑keeping, dispensing allegations; case submitted

On Oct. 2, 2025, the California Veterinary Medical Board conducted a hearing on Dr. Kenneth Carl Allison’s petition to modify or terminate probation imposed under a stipulated settlement resolving allegations that he dispensed medications without examinations and failed to keep required medical records for multiple equine patients. The administrative law judge closed the record at the end of the hearing and submitted the matter for the board’s decision.

The Department of Justice deputy attorney general summarized the procedural history: a first amended accusation filed April 7, 2022, alleged that between June 29 and Aug. 17, 2017, Allison dispensed drugs to roughly 23–30 equine patients without performing examinations or establishing veterinarian–client–patient relationships and used non‑FDA approved medications for some animals. Allison signed a stipulated settlement Oct. 14, 2022, placing his license on three years' probation with 19 terms; the decision and order took effect Dec. 30, 2022.

At the hearing Allison testified that he has been licensed in California for about 32 years and holds a license with the California Horse Racing Board. He acknowledged past lapses in probation compliance, including late quarterly reports and a period when monthly medical‑record supervision reports were not timely filed for January–June 2024; the record shows he became compliant after his probation monitor raised the issues. As of Sept. 23, 2024, Allison had paid the board’s cost recovery listed in the record as $23,961.

Allison told the board that office moves and transitions after the closure of Golden Gate Fields contributed to delays in getting records to the required reviewer (identified in the record as Dr. Batten). He said the late probation report was a clerical error: “I had thought I had sent that…it was 10 to 14 days after it was supposed to have been done, and that was just a clerical error on my part,” he testified. The board questioned Allison about a recent premises inspection that found human food stored in proximity to vaccines; Allison said the item was removed immediately when the inspector raised it and that he and his practice corrected other inspection‑identified deficiencies.

Both petitioners in the morning session described a shift in practice after Northern California racing ceased — from high‑volume racetrack caseloads (reported as more than 100 horses per day in past practice) to smaller ambulatory sport‑horse caseloads — and said the smaller caseloads permit more complete documentation. Allison said he and his co‑practitioner at San Francisco Equine implemented better record‑keeping practices, completed continuing education focused on records and controlled‑substance documentation, and stopped dispensing controlled substances at the practice.

Administrative Law Judge Brian Weisel closed the record and stated the case was submitted for board deliberation; the board did not announce a final disposition at the hearing. The board will issue a written order after internal deliberations.

Provenance: The Allison petition was placed on the record at the start of the second matter ("on the record before the California Veterinary Medical Board to review the petition for early reduction of penalty for Dr. Kenneth Carl Allison") and concluded when the judge said the record was closed and the matter submitted.