I started Reunion Rescue in 1999 after volunteering at SFACC and watching room after room filled with pit bulls killed. Reunion Rescue has pulled hundreds of pit bulls from SFACC, every single one placed on the euthanasia list by SFACC and turned down by SFSPCA so they could abide by the faulty 1994 adoption pact. I’ve written a book Pit Bull Nation about SFACC pit bull problem and write American Pit Bull Examiner column. Over the years Reunion Rescue has paid the city of San Francisco thousands of dollars to save pit bulls and other animals from death row. I was illegally banned by Carl Friedman and Kat Brown in 2003 over a dog who was nearly killed at SFACC in an effort to cover up the shelter's complicity. Since 2003 Reunion has helped the public with countless found dogs under the radar in efforts to help the animals in San Francisco. The interim director, Eric Zuercher, has a long history of killing all pit bull puppy litters under 6 weeks and a terrible track record of temperament tests. Reunion Rescue has pulled many dogs and puppies under the radar with help from the general public and other rescues who've failed his tests yet have gone on to live long healthy happy lives as canine good citizens. When the Charlie incident occurred in 2012, my column wrote a series on Charlie which has turned into a motivated organized effort to ruin my reputation and that of Reunion Rescue. Rebecca Katz recently fired from SFACC was a part of this effort which includes members of her entourage and volunteers at SFACC. Ms. Katz and her group made public accusations on the group's Facebook page with much name calling and untrue slurs. A lie filled memo written by SFACC employee Deb Campbell was issued to the leader of this group in a very sketchy FOIA and published on his blog accusing me of killing dogs, abusing animals and abandoning dogs, criminal and felonious activity. I have requested an FOIA on myself and in over a year have not had a reply. The published FOIA only had the lie filled memo and a couple of emails from Carl Friedman with no documentation from the four years of work and pulled animals which would show up on a genuine freedom of information request. The hate group posted the published blog on Reunion Rescue Facebook pages, our Cause page, on my articles and even Mayor Lee's Facebook page in an effort to intimidate, embarrass and ruin Reunion Rescue which resulted in a lawsuit settled in my favor out of court. However, the motivated organized movement to ruin my reputation and that of Reunion Rescue has tripled their effort most recently in the newspaper articles about Katz's firing in which the attacks and language were so volatile the commentary had to be suspended. Normal animal shelters with conscientious humane solutions oriented directors and staff do not engage in these nefarious activities. The longtime local rescues Reunion Rescue, Rocket Dog Rescue, Big Dawgs Rescue and others which rescue pit bulls do not pull from SFACC any longer. Those of us who're longtime animal activists grounded in the San Francisco bay area care deeply about the animals in San Francisco and would like to see a humane, rescue friendly, solutions oriented director and staff put in place at SFACC. This shelter in a city named for St. Francis should be a beacon animal shelter for other communities to follow, not a source of ridicule, embarrassment and needless death...a sad black spot on the map instead of the world class institution SFACC is capable of becoming. San Francisco, you’ve hired a cab driver and a lawyer to run things and look at the bloodshed..why not hire an animal person with no kill ideals for a change?