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Appendix: How was the truth uncovered? We cannot know what went on behind closed doors or inside somebody's head. We can only pose the questions that the published documents, PRAs, and eventually discovered data suggest: Did OCAC/OCCR construct numbers favorable to an already -made decision to limit access to the kennel buildings and suspend play groups? Did OCCR block access to the data - as might an organization that either invented false statistics or is just trying to hide its negligence? Here is the saga of the PRAs that tried to get underlying data. (If it looks like there are too many requests involved, please bear in mind that if the very first one had been answered truthfully, the remaining ones would have been moot or trivial.) PRA 23-456 Submitted 1/31/2023, Response was blatant suppression of the data: This letter is in response to your California Public Records Act request 23-456, which OC Animal Care received on 456 [sic]. The request seeks the following records: list of all incidents of an animal biting a person at the OC Animal Care facility from 11112016 to the present. For each incident please include: - Date of incident - Type of animal (dog, cat, other) - Whether the person that was bit was a staff member, a volunteer, or a visitor OC Animal Care has concluded its search and is unable to locate records responsive to your request. Sincerely, Jeffrey Kirkpatrick Custodian of Records February 2, 2023, 11:23am by Jeff Kirkpatrick, Administrative Manager (Staff) PRA 23-589 Submitted 2/6/2023. Response was misdirection and deflection. This PRA was merged with a different PRA (23-556) that was requesting the animal database, and then that second PRA's response failed to include the bite information. PRA 23-1283 Submitted 3/21/2023. While not naming bites, this PRA sought access to other PRAs pertaining to OCAC - and it will turn out that these other PRAs contained bite data. The response was flagrantly incomplete, listing only a handful of PRAs, a small fraction of the appropriate set. Among the omissions was the PRA that later turned out to contain the bite database. A message was sent challenging this response, informing OCCR that a number of omissions were independently known to the requestor, and asking that a complete list be provided. In response, the same reply with all the same files was provided. A further protest yielded no reply at all. Bites - Page 7 of 8