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Board hears shelter overcrowding and data concerns; animal-services staff outline new programs and data access
Summary
Supervisors heard lengthy public comment alleging data discrepancies in shelter records; Animal Services staff described rising intake, new mobile clinics, a 5,000-cat initiative, and explained differences between the static open-data portal and the dynamic on-site database, offering the live data on request.
Riverside County supervisors on Tuesday heard public allegations about inaccurate shelter disposition records and were given a detailed response from Animal Services staff about intake levels, new programs and how to access more current data.
David Kirk, a Palm Desert resident and long-time cat-rescue volunteer, told the Board that public-facing records appeared to contain significant errors. He said the county’s public dataset included roughly 320,000 disposition records since February 2016 and alleged "approximately 16,000 are in error," arguing that the errors could mean "of the 8,400 animals that were killed in Riverside County shelters in 2023, there could be an additional…
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