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DeKalb County animal control officer proposes ordinance rewrite; commissioners approve first reading
Summary
Animal control officer Erica Hedge presented a rewrite of DeKalb County's animal control ordinance—adding a restraint standard, a hoarding definition and moving enforcement toward traffic-style citation— and commissioners approved the measure on first reading. The ordinance was assigned 2025-OD-8DCC15-3-3.
Erica Hedge, the DeKalb County animal control officer, told commissioners she had rewritten the county's animal control ordinance to add clearer definitions and streamline enforcement, and asked the board to advance the code change on first reading. "The ordinance that you have in front of you is what is the current ordinance, but then what is in red is what has been changed," Hedge said, describing three primary changes.
Hedge said the draft replaces the older "running at large" language with a "restraint" standard that requires animals to be on a leash, physically confined or…
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