{"id":1137,"date":"2012-02-01T10:57:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/animal-shelter-director-fired.html"},"modified":"2012-02-01T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:57:33","slug":"animal-shelter-director-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/animal-shelter-director-fired.html","title":{"rendered":"Animal shelter director fired"},"content":{"rendered":"Animal shelter board\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/01\/spca-report-on-animal-shelter-childish-behavior-and-lack-of-oversight.html\">\nreceived report,<\/a>\nand then acted on it!\n<p>\nCharlie Specht wrote for the Buffalo News Monday,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city\/communities\/niagara-county\/article717586.ece\">\nEmbattled Faso fired as Niagara SPCA chief:\nBoard move follows furor, scathing report on shelter<\/a>,\n<blockquote>\nThe leaders of the SPCA of Niagara hired John A. Faso as executive\ndirector in April 2010 after interviewing a series of &#8220;remarkable&#8221;\napplicants.\n<p>\n&#8220;We were really impressed with the quality, but John stood out,&#8221;\nboard President Bruno A. &#8220;Brandy&#8221; Scrufari III said at the time. &#8220;We\nwere confident he&#8217;s here to stay for quite some time.&#8221;\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city\/communities\/niagara-county\/article717586.ece\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   width=\"206\" height\"234\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/incoming\/article717861.ece\/BINARY\/w620\/faso.jpg\"><\/a>\nThose high hopes came crashing down Monday as the board voted to\nfire its embattled executive director after a month of criticism and\na scathing report outlining a dysfunctional culture and unnecessary\nand cruel euthanasia practices.\n<p>\n&#8220;This is a quick, decisive, positive reaction to go forward,&#8221; said\nPaul J. Cambria Jr., the defense attorney advising the board.\n&#8220;They&#8217;re well on their way to fixing it.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nIt took less than one week for them to act after getting the report.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Animal shelter board received report, and then acted on it! Charlie Specht wrote for the Buffalo News Monday, Embattled Faso fired as Niagara SPCA chief: Board move follows furor, scathing report on shelter, The leaders of the SPCA of Niagara hired John A. Faso as executive director in April 2010 after interviewing a series of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,324,1073,70,3],"tags":[3071,8763,3114,3115,2603,1552,8701,7,8819,3073,3096,3116,3117,8700],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-animals","category-buffalo","category-ethics","category-transparency","tag-animal-shelter","tag-animals","tag-childish","tag-cruelty","tag-erie-county","tag-euthanasia","tag-georgia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-new-york","tag-niagara-county","tag-oversight","tag-painful","tag-spca","tag-transparency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-il","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}