OCAC Euthanasia List analysis by Eugene Gochicoa, moderated by Summer Parker
Channel: NoKill ShelterAlliance
Date: 2016-03-22

Agenda followed by Introduction, both by Summer Parker

MEETING AGENDA

OCAC* Euthanasia Analysis
March 19, 2016
*Orange County Animal Care

INTRODUCTION:

 Welcome to our Analysis of OCAC Data provided via the Sharon Logan lawsuit!

 Statement by Sharon Logan

 Introduction to Eugene Gochicoa

3 PART ANALYSIS: 

 Raw Data Spreadsheets

 Pivot Table

 Charts 

CONCLUSION:

 Please make sure to join our Facebook groups: No Kill Shelter Alliance & Save 
 More Kill Less OC Animal Care Protest Group.

 Please join us at our next protest which is being held in front of the Board of  Supervisors meeting this Tuesday, March 22nd please arrive by 8:00 a.m. Location is: Hall of Administration 333 West Santa Ana Boulevard in Santa Ana CA. 

Statement by Jennifer Hawkins Director of OC Animal Care to The Orange County  Register August 26, 2015:

Dr. Hawkins stated, “We maintain our commitment to providing quality treatment to the animals in our care.  This includes employing our best efforts to avoid euthanasia of healthy animals or animals with no known temperamental defect.  The outcome of this  settlement agreement is not so much a win for either party but rather a win for animals that might otherwise be surrendered for the purpose of euthanasia.”

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INTRODUCTION:

Thank you everyone for attending this meeting today. My name is Summer Parker  and I am the Founder of the Save More Kill Less OC Animal Care Protest Group. 

Today we will be covering the data analysis of euthanized animals from October  2015 through February 2016 provided by OC Animal Care via the Sharon Logan  lawsuit. We will conduct this meeting in three parts that will include 

Section one:  Raw Data Spreadsheet
Section two: Pivot Table
Section three: Charts. 

We also  suggest you use the chat window to introduce yourself and also use the chat  window to type your questions so that we are able to address each question as soon as we can get to a stopping point. 

Next, I would like to introduce Sharon Logan: 

Sharon Logan is an Animal Activist, Founder of Paw Protectors and Plaintiff in the  Sharon Logan Lawsuit vs. OC Animal Care lawsuit. Regarding the lawsuit, there were some very serious allegations, violations, State  and Federal statutes and laws that Sharon Logan has named in her 13 page lawsuit  that Sharon Logan claims the Orange County Animal Shelter has continually and  habitually violated.

Portions of Sharon Logan's lawsuit reads:

- Defendants have engaged and continue to engage in an ongoing pattern of abuse  and failure to follow state law at the Orange County Animal Care. Defendant's  consistent violations of law in this petition and complaint have resulted in the  senseless and wrongful killing of impounded animals in direct contravention of the  State of California's policy codified into law to promote rescue and adoption over  death for these animals.

- In 1998, the California legislature enacted Senate Bill 1785("SB 1785"). The  purpose of SB 1785 was to shift California's animal shelter system in the direction  of saving, rather than taking the lives of animals delivered to the care of the animal  shelters located throughout the state. SB 1785 is currently codified in various  places throughout the Civil Code, Food and Agricultural Code and the Penal Code. 

- In all three Codes, the Legislature specifically codified the State's policy favoring  life by re-homing over death for shelter animals. 

- In violation of these and other mandatory duties imposed by law, plaintiffs are  informed and believe the above named defendants:

-- Routinely kill healthy adoptable animals without first holding the animals for the  minimum period of time mandated by law.
-- Routinely kill animals that are ill or injured but treatable without first holding the  animals for the minimum period of time mandated by law.
-- Routinely violated the spirit and purpose of the minimum statutorily required holding period for impounded animals, by killing animals that have been  technically impounded for a sufficient period of time but have been given no  meaningful opportunity for reunification with their owners or adoptions because defendants segregate such animals in sections of their shelters that are not readily accessible to the public.
-- Routinely fail to release animals scheduled to be put to death to nonprofit rescues  and or adoption organizations that are willing to take the animals that are not irremediably suffering from any serious illness or injury.
-- Routinely fail to treat animals kindly and humanely.

Per the requirements of the settlement, OC Animal Care provides monthly reports of all euthanized animals to Sharon Logan and her attorneys.  This meeting covers data from these reports as well as an analysis of the data by Gino Gochicoa.

Gino’s background includes:
20 years Active Duty in the Navy
Master’s in Public Administration/Healthcare Management