The Legal and Official Sides...

Some of the "official" responses

• First Deputy Mayor Peter Powers letter -- 2/24/95
• Sanitation Commissioner & CACC Board Chairman John J. Doherty letters -- 10/22/96 & 11/6/96
• Health Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg letter --12/12/96
• Deputy Mayor for Operations Randy M. Mastro letter -- 3/26/97
• Acting Health Commissioner Dr. Benjamin Mojica letter -- 9/26/97
• CACC Executive Director Marilyn Haggerty-Blohm letter -- 9/1/98
• Marilyn Haggerty-Blohm's internet posting on Brill's Content --11/98
• Mayor's Chief of Staff Bruce Teitelbaum letter -- 10/29/98
• Mayor's Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Carbonetti letter -- 7/29/99

SRAC proposes a humane solution

• 1997 Animal Welfare & Shelter Reform ballot initiative
• ASPCA press release -- 8/27/97
• Councilmember Jerome X. O'Donovan press release -- 9/4/97
• Councilmember A. Gifford Miller press release -- 9/12/97
• Councilmember Kathryn E. Freed press release -- 9/17/97
• Letter of Carlos Cuevas, City Clerk, rejecting the petition -- 9/12/97
• SRAC post-mortem letter to its supporters -- 10/27/97

SRAC goes to court

The CACC denies that it is subject to the Freedom of Information and Open Meetings Laws and the City goes along. What do they want to hide?

SHELTER REFORM ACTION COMMITTEE
against
THE CENTER FOR ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL
and THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

• FOIL Petition
• Memorandum of Law
• Affidavit of SRAC Co-Chairman chronicling the dishonesty and abuse of the legal system by CACC manage
• Decision of Judge Diane Lebedeff -- SRAC wins important legal principle

The City refuses to put the Animal Welfare and Shelter Reform ballot initiative to the voters in November '97. The court system gives more power to the government than to the voters.

SHELTER REFORM ACTION COMMITTEE,
versus
CARLOS CUEVAS, as City Clerk of the City of New York,
and the BOARD OF ELECTIONS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

• Verified Petition
• Memorandum of Law
• Attorney's Affidavit
• Ruling of NYS Supreme Court Justice David B. Saxe -- court denies public access to political process

New York State laws pertaining to animals

• NYS Agriculture & Markets Law - Article 7 - Licensing, Identification and Control of Dogs
• New York State Consolidated Laws - Lost and Strayed Animals 115/1894 Chapter 115 - AN ACT FOR THE BETTER PROTECTION OF LOST AND STRAYED ANIMALS, AND FOR SECURING THE RIGHTS OF THE OWNERS THEREOF:

SRAC's current legislative agenda

• Amending the 1894 State law
• Passing a NYC Spay/Neuter law

Intro 567-A hearing was held on February 28, 2000 -- legislation that would mandate a full service animal shelter in every borough and the spaying/neutering of all shelter and pet shop dogs and cats
State Legislature Joint Public Hearing in NYC was held on March 9, 2000: Pet Population and Control and Animal Shelter Overcrowding
Consider these statistics compiled by The Coalition for NYC Animals: Spay/Neuter Fact Sheet

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