SAINT ANTONIO – San Antonio legislators are paying attention to the harmful dog issue in the city and the state, and have actually submitted 3 costs to much better secure the general public.
Each costs targets at resolving particular issues with present laws that handle harmful dogs.
The filings followed a dog attack 2 weeks ago that killed 81-year-old Ramon Najera Jr., and hurt his better half and several others on Depla Street.
“It’s a tragedy. We want to do everything that we can with the state government as well as local animal care services to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” Mayor Ron Nirenberg said.
Nirenberg said the city is searching for methods to secure the general public when it concerns harmful dogs in addition to compliance problems with next-door neighbors.
“If there are a number of calls — animal care, code compliance, police calls to a particular house where it’s evident the neighbor is being negligent or being reckless with the community around them, we want to be able to flag that and prevent incidents from happening in the future,” Nirenberg said.
The costs proposed by State Representatives Elizabeth Campos and Diego Bernal and State Senator Jose Menendez would increase the criminal charge associated to an attack by a hazardous dog, enable animal services to consider a dog harmful without a victim’s affidavit and enable victims to anonymously submit harmful dog affidavits.
Nirenberg said next-door neighbors on Depla St. didn’t submit affidavits due to the fact that they feared retaliation.
One individual was already detained for retaliation in this case.
Destiny Marie Cardona was detained on March 9 for threatening a next-door neighbor.
Cardona is the sis of among the dogs’ owners, Abilene Schnieder, and has actually because bailed out of prison.
Christian Moreno and Schnieder stay in the Bexar County Jail, charged with attack by harmful dog leading to death and injury to a senior.
On March 22, Nirenberg said Animal Care Services is anticipated to inform the city board about the case.
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