The story is that Dancy, even while a student at Pierce, was running a for-profit farm business on the campus, involving her cows and may still continue.
Therefore, it appears that an Animal Services employee was moonlighting with her own private business on a community college campus, i.e., a state agency, and while so doing, gave Pierce faculty knowledge of animal neglect complaints against the College, and allegedly also informed them there was to be an inspection by the LA Animal Cruelty Task Force.
This sounds like a straightforward obstruction of justice problem as well as a tricky legal problem of an allegedly moonlighting employee using a state agency's premises to conduct a for-profit business called a "student animal project."
This letter was sent to me. It was written by Dick South, head of Pierce's Agricultural program and directed to Dean Rupert.
It states there was now a moratorium on "Student Animal Projects," which does appear to be a euphemism for private, for-profit animal businesses. Notice, the letter states that Stacy's and Sam's "projects" would not be affected by the moratorium.
That is, Dancy was allegedly running a for-profit business at Pierce even before 2003. Does this business arrangement continue even today? Has she been a "student" at a community collge for six or more years?
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Dick South cites the reason for the moratorium is complaints that the animals were being neglected; that is, no one was paying any attention to them, which is exactly what the http://www.piercefarmwatch.com/ website alleges continues today.
Has nothing changed? Can we expect the ACTF to bust another "hoarder" rather than conduct a surprise inspection at Pierce? Of course, it really wouldn't be a surprise, would it?
The story sent to me by commenters and included in several posts below, is that many, many LAAS and ACTF employees were aware of the complaints of neglect of the animals and of a planned ACTF that came 9 days late with the full knowledge of those employees.
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The second document is an accounting statement dated May 31, 2005, two years and three months after South's moratorium letter, which states apparently $5,600 worth of cows were sold (although it does not say cow sales), and that the college received $1,980 during the first five months of 2005 for boarding cows. Is this still Stacy?
All of these legal issues are interesting, enough so that the whole story was run before an attorney at the City Attorney's Office. We'll see what happens. I was told by this person I should ask Boks directly if he intends to run an investigation.
Well, Ed, are you?
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Hi Mr. Muzika:
ReplyDeleteOn the side of the cats and on a note celebrating their protection:
Would you mind helping us out with this please?
Thank you.
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Okay Ed. Looks like your having your fantasy dreams again about animals. Farm animals are for MAKING MONEY! They are not there to give cute names to. Food Ed. Food. You think because some place like Pierce is a farm it must be inhumane. ACTF has bigger and better things to do then placate you humaniacs with some go nowhere investigation of a farm. Smell the coffee!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCheck out www.piercefarmwatch.com and click on the blog URL on it for hundreds of pictures of their farm animals and various degrees of neglect.
ReplyDeleteThen do you think it o.k. for farm animals to be neglected?
The allegation is that Pierce ignores the farm animals on its campus. The letter from South dated May 11, 03 indicates that LAAS was contacted about neglect of its farm animals back then and allegations of neglect continue.
If there was a coverup of animal neglect and that coverup involved the ACTF, Pierce and LAAS employees, the story goes far, far beyond an animal neglect case and involves multiple illegalities. So, you think it o.k. to neglect animals and then obstruct justice by thwarting an investigation?
Thank you for putting up this post, Mr. Muzika!
ReplyDeleteI need to make a correction on the website, however, (sorry!)
The REAL website for feral cat caretaker's coalition is:
www.feralcatcaretakers.org (not feralcatcaretakerscoalition.org).
OOPS! I was ready to fall over when I wrote out the announcement, it was very late....
Thank you for putting the post up!
Before the ACTF they just would send regular ACOs out to do inspections. There's been many complaints about Angel Puss over 15 years. They were busted two or three times I think. Last bust was by BHLE. Anyway, an employee working at WV shelter alerted Angel Puss that the ACOs were going to pay a visit the next day. That night Angel Puss got rid of as many sick cats as possible and cleaned up the place. The next day the ACOs showed up and it didn't look too bad, so they did nothing. It seems the shelter was friendly with Angel Puss because the shelter was dumping kittens on them. So, the shelter dumps kittens on a known hoarder. When people complain, they tip off the hoarder, then send in the ACOs and nothing happens.
ReplyDeleteThe shelter, ACTF, LAPD, they're all corrupt. They pick and choose whom to bust. They'd rather bust a rescuer who complains about the dept who has over three bunnies (true story) than a dog fighter. It's all political. If you or I call the cops and say someone threatened to kill us, vandalized our home, they won't do anything. If a friend of a councilmember calls up and says someone looked at them funny, they'll send a bunch of squad cars with sirens.
It's not about justice, Ed. It's about politics. The Dept and ACTF don't care about animal welfare. They care about their jobs, money and image. That's life.
>>>You think because some place like Pierce is a farm it must be inhumane.<<<
ReplyDeleteWRONG! ...and here is my wish for you: Go to the Pierce College Farm and buy yourself some of your so-called food. Your food that has been neglected and is disease ridden. Disease that is contagious to YOU. Have yourself a nice, rare pice of lamb, or cow, or cabrito because you absolutely deserve what you will contract from these animals, you ignorant pig!
>>>Dept and ACTF don't care about animal welfare. They care about their jobs, money and image.<<<
ReplyDeletePerfect! Because there image don't look so great from where I'm sitting reading this blog! Thanks, Ed!
>>>an employee working at WV shelter alerted Angel Puss that the ACOs were going to pay a visit the next day. That night Angel Puss got rid of as many sick cats as possible and cleaned up the place.<<<
ReplyDeleteSounds like Stacy Dancy's work to me.
I think someone should ask what happened to the BHLE. After they busted Angel Puss, embarassing the crap out of animal control for not doing their jobs, the Ed Boks predecessor filed a complaint that the BHLE officers did not take the proper oath and his pals in the City Attorney's office disbanded them. Look it up.
Okay Ed. Saw the Piercefarmwatch.com website. Not impressed. It's interesting all the pictures are thumbnail. Smell the coffee Ed. Smell the coffee.
ReplyDeleteLA ACO
Hey LA ACO
ReplyDeleteGo to the blog linked to the piercefarmwatch.com site. The button is on the left side near the top.
Once there, www.piercefarmwatch.blogspot.com, on the right side there is a button called flickr. Click on that and you'll see 350 large sized photos of sick and injured animals at Pierce.
BHLE was allegedly destroyed by Madeleine Bernstein and Don Cecek, LA deputy city attorney in the Valley that handles all animal abuse and neglect cases in the Valley, who also happened to be on the Board of Madeleine's LASPCA.
ReplyDeleteBHLE was a competitor of Bernstein's organization and apparently the judge involved failed to follow all the procedures to make BHLE employees huumane officers, they were all decertified. Bye, bye BHLE.
So I have been told by doing a goole on the infalible, never tell a lie or make a mistake Internet.
Saw the larger pictures Ed. As an LA ACO I'm still not offended or shocked. Thats what most farms look like. It's not supposed to be the Taj Mahal. C'mon humaniacs. There are worse situations out there. I should know more than you. While you are all in Nordstroms, I'm out there seeing it. Get back to Starbuck's and leave the humane work to us professionals. :) Bye
ReplyDeleteYou mean this sort of abuse is common to all farms and it doen't bother you in the least? Man, that says a lot about you and the attitude of LAAS ACOs. A lot of you are a sick bunch.
ReplyDeleteYou are a "professional" humane worker? This has to be one of my sarcastic commenters knocking the shelters again.
>>>As an LA ACO I'm still not offended or shocked.<<<
ReplyDeleteI can totally see how, as an LA ACO, that you are neither shocked or offended by an cow with an eye rotting out of it's head for six months, or a sheep collapsed for days unable to eat due to the ulcers in her foaming mouth, or a goat with an untreated, ruptured abscess the same size as it's own head. You're an LA ACO. You have no concept of the law and you pick and choose what you want to find inhumane as it suits you.
>>>There are worse situations out there. I should know more than you.<<<
ReplyDeleteEveryone please take not of this. This is the response you will get when you call LAAS. It doesn't matter what you're calling about.
The title LA ACO is synonymous with incompentence, that's a given.
>>>Get back to Starbuck's and leave the humane work to us professionals.<<<
ReplyDeleteUh, you don't do humane work, and the last thing you are is a professional. If you did, there never would have been a demand for the BHLE who did you job for you because you wouldn't do it. I'll fund any organization that actually enforces the state of California's humane laws. You conveniently call them humaniacs. I call you a liar.
"cow with an eye rotting out of it's head for six months, or a sheep collapsed for days unable to eat due to the ulcers in her foaming mouth, or a goat with an untreated, ruptured abscess the same size as it's own head."
ReplyDeleteWTF?!!!!!!!!
So now are they going to shoot these guys and eat them or just shoot 'em?!
What is PIERCE GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS and what is going to happen to these animals? Are they going to keep living out the rest of their lives rotting away alive because there is no humane way of euthanizing them or are they just going to keep living out their lives rotting away because they deserve to live?
Then what??
What is going to happen to these suffering creatures without obtaining the obvious urgent medical treatment they need?!!!!
>>>What is going to happen to these suffering creatures without obtaining the obvious urgent medical treatment they need?!!!!<<<
ReplyDeleteAllow me to quote the Pierce College Farm Manager, Richard W. South when asked this very question over and over and over again. Answer: "They're all going to market!"
You most likely ate them when you had a hamburger or sausage, celebrated Easter or Passover, or went to your favorite ethnic restaurant. Hopefully it was a cooked meal, a REALLY COOKED meal. Some of that crap is contagious.