What we really have here are several clay county animal control employees mad at someone who is putting their jobs in jepordy. What we really have here is a citizen that was falsely accused and a deputy who was falsely accused, and the lies are still flying. The citizen and the deputy did the right thing. The deputy is guilty only of doing a good job to protect the animals and the citizen was told he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The deputy was cleared by an internal investigation, documents are available to the public, and the citizen has filed a law suit, and I can't blame him, and has also offered to take a polygraph. CCAC employees are lying to protect their cusshy jobs, that they have had for years. They have done this before and will do it again to innocent people, they just don't seem to care about what is right. I like many other citizens out there hope that the truth does come out and if need be they are replaced with a caring, efficent staff. CCAC employees just want to keep the false accusations out there, the want to cloud the real problems at CCAC with these false accusations that is how they get rid of people that cause them a problem or that they preceive as a possible threat to their jobs. They are not truthful. MY CLAY SUN, you have this blog out there and you need to tell the other side of the story not just a story from CCAC's side. Who know's what these CCAC employees will say next, their jobs are on the line and they are desperate. Citizens do a little research and I am sure you will find out the truth. I have taken alot of time, spoken to alot of people and have alot of public documents that will prove my side.
Is a bunch of people who either don't know how or won't discuss the important issue of Animal Control with any sense of dignity, decorum or manners.
Lost in rhetoric about personalities and motives, insults and allegations, fake attempts at civility and various claims of "what we really have here" is any semblance of the vaguest attempt to reach an end to the bitter argument. You know, find a point where everyone might say, OK, this isn't perfect, but it's a step in the right direction so we can stop yelling now.
Clay County Animal Control is a department of local government in need of updating and professionalizing. That process is being undertaken now by the County Manager. The CCAC director and management staff, barring any evidence the County Manager has that I'm not aware of, should be allowed the opportunity to administer the new policies and regulations. If they cannot do that efficiently, then that's when a personnel change would be warranted.
Seems like a good point where everyone could just take a break and wait to see what happens. At least if anyone was concerned about the real issue of how Animal Control is run by the county, instead of so interested in calling each other names.
Michael S. Mann
michaelsmann@comcast.net