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Cities are reexamining and repealing breed specific laws (bsl) because of the new ADA guidance on Service Dogs...
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The new trend since the Michael Vick case of allowing dogs seized from fight busts to be evaluated and adopted out or transferred to rescue groups.
More and more cities are facing lawsuits from police shooting family pets.
More cities are enacting reckless or problem pet owner ordinances to prevent bad owners from owning pets and repealing their breed discriminatory or breed specific laws.
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Pro Consumer Safety has released it's 2014 Halloween Safety Fact Sheet.
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This paper discusses the need to re-evaluate community infrastructures in light of changing weather and climate patterns.
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This white paper was presented at the Alliance for Innovation’s 2014 BIG Ideas conference by Susanne Torriente, assistant city manager of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.