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The truth about the number of bites in 2018-2022 <br />Faced with any analysis or recommendations, OC Animal Care (OCAC) and OC Community <br />Resources (OCCR), always turn the discussion to safety, i.e., bites. A key slide that shows the <br />number of bites at the shelter each year is present most presentations by OCAC/OCCR. The <br />slide is shown below. <br />OCAC and OCCR are proud of the very low number of bites in the 2020-2022 period. You <br />would think they assembled these statistics (just double-digit numbers annually) carefully. <br />There are many of ways to do this: <br />- Put the bite reports in a file drawer, and hand -count them at the end of the year. <br />- Enter them in a calendar. <br />- Instruct staff to flag the bite reports with a hashtag. <br />- Or, lacking all foresight, spend a modicum of effort to sort through the data and count. <br />As it becomes evident below, OCAC and OCCR took none of these steps. The numbers they <br />present in the slide are, like so many of their numbers and assertions, fictional. <br />In effect, nobody knows with certainty how many bites occurred at the shelter in each <br />recent year. Not OCAC, not OCCR, not the Supervisors, not the public. But we do know one <br />thing: The bite statistics presented by OCAC/OCCR are wrong by a wide margin. <br />�2019 <br />9 <br />20 <br />16 <br />bites to employees <br />bites to employees <br />bites to employees <br />6 <br />12 <br />0 <br />bites to volunteers <br />bites to volunteers <br />bites to volunteers <br />2 <br />23 <br />7 <br />bites to members of <br />bites to members of <br />bites to members of <br />public <br />public <br />public <br />What is the true number of bites? <br />4 <br />bites to employees <br />4 <br />bites to volunteers <br />3 <br />bites to members of <br />public <br />6 <br />bites to employees <br />2 <br />bites to volunteers <br />4 <br />bites to members of <br />public <br />The saga of the PRAs and OCCR's resistance are detailed in an Appendix at the end of this <br />report. The first PRAs were met with an assertion that no records are available! OCCR <br />avoided full disclosure for over three months. A total of 3 databases (not consistent among <br />them) were obtained only after a cascade of PRAs. Two were supposed to be specific to bites <br />occurring in the shelter. One was the master database of all bites in the county, from PRA <br />23-296 submitted for unknown reasons by an unknown requestor. <br />Bites - Page 1 of 8 <br />