{"id":1803,"date":"2011-07-05T10:18:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T14:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/missing-records-at-ga-dept-of-ag-animal-protection.html"},"modified":"2011-07-05T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T14:18:32","slug":"missing-records-at-ga-dept-of-ag-animal-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/missing-records-at-ga-dept-of-ag-animal-protection.html","title":{"rendered":"Missing records at GA Dept. of Ag. Animal Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"Earlier I asked:\n\n“So if the investigation takes more than 2 years, do the earlier files about it start to vanish?”<\/a>\nIt appears that there’s no need to wait 2 years for records to vanish from\nthe Ga. Department of Agriculture Animal Protection.\n

\nBlogger Rattlin’ Georgia’s Cages wrote at some unknown date about\n\nState Audits<\/a>:\n

\n
\n\nThe author of this website is NOT an attorney, nor is attempting to\nprovide legal advice to ANY person or organizational entity. The author of\nthis website does not, nor does this website, represent, nor is affiliated\nwith, the Ga. Department of Agriculture Animal Protection Division. The\nauthor of this website is a previous employee of the Ga. Department of\nAgriculture, employed as an Animal Protection Inspector, from Dec 2003\nuntil July 29, 2004.<\/span>\n

\nThe Ga. Department of Agriculture Animal Protection\n
\nOffice was audited in 2000.\n
\nThis office was also reviewed, by the State Audit Office, in 2003,\n
\nfor a follow up \u2013 to determine if this office was adhering\n
\nto the state auditor\u2019s recommendations.\n
\n\n* My comments are in red text.\n<\/span>\n<\/center>\n<\/blockquote>\nI’ve included here a couple of examples from that audit,\nwith that blogger’s comments in red. -jsq\n
\n\n<\/a>\nThe Department has the authority to suspend or revoke a facility\u2019s\nlicense. If a facility is found to be operating without a license, the\nProgram notifies the facility of the licensure requirement, provides a\ncopy of the standards that must be met to obtain a license, and schedules\na pre-license inspection.\n

\n\n* Unlicensed breeders found to be operating unlicensed were not, during\nmy employment, monetarily fined for violations. Under the authority of\nthe Ga. Admin Procedures Act, Ag AP could, but rarely did, fine a person.\n<\/span>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

\n(2) 96% of the facilities cited for not providing humane care will be\nreinspected and brought into compliance or will be subjected to license\nrevocation and\/or a settlement conference.\n

\nComplete data was not available, however, for determining the Program\u2019s\neffectiveness in meeting these objectives.\n

\nThe Budget Report for fiscal year 2001, for example, indicates that 96%\n(241) of 250 facilities cited for noncompliance in fiscal year 1999 were\nbrought into compliance or subject to disciplinary action.\n

\nThe Department has indicated that support for these numbers had been\ngenerated by hand and was no longer available.\n<\/blockquote>\nThere’s a lot more in that audit, but this is enough to see that\ninspection records are not kept very well by GA Dept. Ag.\nGiven a combination of a state inspection office that isn’t very good\nabout keeping records and won’t reveal them anyway until an investigation\nis complete at some unspecified time in the future,\nplus\n\na local county government that threatens legal action against\na citizens group trying to investigate,<\/a>\npeople might start wondering if there’s something going on that\nsomebody is trying to cover up.\n

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