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Pacific residents press board over dog bite; aldermen ask staff to draft animal-control procedure
Summary
Residents described repeated aggressive-dog incidents and urged stronger rules and better communication; the board directed staff to develop a clear checklist-style procedure for investigating dog bites and clarified limits on what the city can share about open cases.
Several Pacific residents urged the Board of Aldermen on Aug. 6 to tighten animal-control practices after a recent attack they said left a neighbor injured.
"Maybe we need some stronger laws," Katie Collins, 209 East Walnut Street, told the board during public participation, recounting her own prior dog-bite injury and asking how neighbors would be notified when a dangerous animal is reported. City staff said an open case exists but that information available to the public is limited to the case record.
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