Boy’s mauling death could spur animal control improvements in Atlanta
After a 6-year-old boy was killed by a dog in Atlanta last month, Fulton County officials are considering asking the city to pay more for increased animal control services.
The county has proposed asking Atlanta to spend $150,000 more a year for three animal control officers.
More than 60 percent of the county’s 26,000 annual animal control calls come from Atlanta, and Fulton’s 14 officers are half as many as are typical for a county of its size, Fulton chief operating officer Todd Long said Wednesday.
“We’ve got to do something, based on the tragedy,” Commissioner Marvin Arrington said.
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Arielle Kass covers Gwinnett County for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She started at the paper in 2010, and has covered business and local government beats around metro Atlanta. Arielle is a graduate of Emory University.
