Subject: Bureau of Animal Regulation and Control

• Like a Dog in the Dirt

  A jury helps a whistle-blower in his battle against city animal control unit abuses

  February 17, 2000

• BARC Wants More City Money Now, Or Dogs And Staffers Will Die

  The Bureau of Animal Regulation and Control vaccinated only eight percent of animals on entry between July 2008 and January 2009, according to a BARC supplement asking for additional funding from the city. "Best industry standard is to vaccinate all animals entering a shelter, to minimize the spread of disease among the existing animal population," the report states (original emphasis included). "This management decision translates into concrete efforts to promote and create a populati

  June 22, 2009

• This Just In: BARC No Longer Part Of The Health & Human Services Department

  Photo by abcrumley​The Bureau of Animal Regulation and Control will be removed from the Health and Human Services Department, according to Frank Michel, the Mayor's communications director."We will be working to remove BARC from the Health Department over the next couple of weeks," Michel told Hair Balls in an e-mail. "The continuing issues have been a distraction for many of the good people of the Health Department who are doing excellent jobs on human health and other programs. It will

  September 1, 2009