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Residents press Clermont County commissioners over animal-shelter practices during public comment
Summary
Multiple volunteers and residents told the commissioners Oct. 23 that shelter policies and operations — including transfer approvals, medication access and intake practices — are harming animals and volunteers, and urged an RFP or outside management and a county-led focus group.
Multiple residents used the Clermont County Board of Commissioners’ public-comment period Oct. 23 to accuse shelter management of inconsistent transfer policies, gaps in medication access for foster animals and poor recordkeeping, and to urge the board to take more active oversight or seek outside management.
During a roughly two-hour public-comment segment, speakers identified as foster volunteers and long-time community volunteers described instances they said showed systemic problems at the county shelter. Stephanie Freeborn said volunteers had previously moved “about 150 dogs into rescues” without board approval, and that an email from shelter staff member Angie Livsey later stated transfers would require board approval. Freeborn asked whether Claire Cochran and other commissioners had been involved in denying a transfer of a dog named Bordeaux; Cochran responded during public comment: “There was no consultation whatsoever with the other commissioners. It had to do with the direction of of, Angie telling her she could not do it, and I backed up Angie.”
Kathleen Faulk…
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