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# Bites Missed by OCAC/OCCR <br />12 <br />10 <br />8 <br />6 <br />4 <br />2 <br />0 <br />0 <br />2019 2020 <br />2021 2022 <br />These give three close, but not identical, counts by year. ALL THREE show that the bites in <br />any year EXCEPT 2019 are higher than the numbers reported by OCAC/OCCR. <br />We cannot be absolutely certain about the correct numbers of bites. The most reliable source <br />is the county -wide database. We extracted from this database the bites that occurred at the <br />shelter's street address, using a variety of formulations for how the address can be written. <br />(There were still dozens of entries with no address, and it is possible that some odd formulation <br />of the address was overlooked.) In a manual verification, the 2022 bites from this database <br />all appear valid. <br />OCAC/OCCR will tell you not to trust this report. But we are providing official <br />documentation of the 2022 bites, in the PDF file "Bite Reports in OCAC 2022.pdf". A total of <br />23 bites occurred in OCAC in 2022. Official documents obtained via PRAs are included for all <br />bites but the last one, B22-001727, represented by a printout from the county -wide bite <br />database. (Official documents for this last bite have been requested.) We are also providing a <br />CSV file of all the shelter bites for the 2018-2022 period, "Bites at OCAC Address.csv". <br />Based on our best efforts to extract the relevant records from the database, the real number <br />of bites for 2022 is 92% higher than what OCAC/OCCR reported. The number for 2019 is <br />only off by one. The number of bites missed by OCAC/OCCR is showing in a chart for the <br />years 2019-2022. We left out 2018 because the magnitude of that correction is enormous. <br />(The extravagant understatement of 2018 made only 2019 the baddie in the OCAC/OCCR <br />slide, which raises the question of whether the OCAC/OCCR statistics were meant to pin the <br />bites on policies followed by a specific previous Director.) <br />Here is a summary of the corrections that need to be made to OCAC/OCCR numbers in the <br />2018-2022 period: <br />Year <br />2018 <br />2019 <br />2020 <br />2021 <br />2022 <br />OCAC/OCCR claim <br />17 <br />55 <br />23 <br />11 <br />12 <br />Database Count <br />59 <br />56 <br />25 <br />19 <br />23 <br />Pct correction +347% +2% +9% +73% +92% <br />Conveniently, the 2019 number, used by OC as a baseline, is the only one almost correct. <br />If it had been underestimated just like the others, OCAC/OCCR wouldn't get the favorable <br />comparison they were looking for. <br />Bites - Page 2 of 8 <br />