♦️WE NEED HUNDREDS OF YOU TO FILL OUT AND SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING♦️

The Office of the Inspector General of the City of Chicago is seeking feedback on its proposed 2024 audit and review of city agencies, including CACC.  Please review the link in the comments, and then provide FEEDBACK encouraging the OIG to more fully investigate CACC's policies and practices. 

Deadline is Dec 31 but please do this now so you do not forget. 

Here's the feedback form.  
https://igchicago.org/community-feedback-form/

Ignore the first prompt and skip to the one that says:

“Which Audit and Program Review Projects from the annual plan do you think would have the most positive impact on the City?  Which projects are most important to you as an individual?    

The second prompt reads: 

”Is there something you would have liked to have seen happen that’s not here?  For example, an issue that’s important to you?”

If you need ideas:

1) CACC has not had an audit since 2013.   As a result, CACC has not complied with the standards of care needed to secure the humane and healthy treatment of animals under its care. 

2) And audit would hold the CACC staff accountable for their actions, with more transparency for the public, so that CACC may deliver its mission, putting the animals’ needs first.  .

CACC kills one out of three dogs that go into the shelter and they confuse that number by categorizing the deaths. Where is our humanity if the shelter does not even attempt to save the lives of the homeless companion animals under city stewardship?  Animal problems are people problems and if the city shelter is negligent, what kind of an example is it sending to the people of Chicago? The state ? The country?

4) Animal Care and Control protects public safety:
• When was the last public education program run by the CACC on animal safety?

5) Does CACC assure the humane care of animals through sheltering, pet placement, education and law enforcement.

***STATE WHY THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT TO YOU!

�  UNDER THE PROMPT THAT SAYS: “Is there anything else you would like us to know?”

If you do not have a Chicago zip code, explain that you are a CACC networker, that you follow, share and pledge on CACC posts or that you have fostered or adopted (or facilitated fosters/ adoptions) at CACC.  This includes bordering states: Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri   You are advocating for the CACC dogs by signing this petition.

� DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Dec 31, 2023. Please do it TODAY so you don’t forget!

LASTLY, from my experiences with City agencies, this is very much a NUMBERS GAME. That is, junior staffers will add up numbers on each proposal and code for specific issues (like CACC). The other proposal — Public Safety/CPD — is going to have WAY more replies than the Audit proposal. So we REALLY really need to be on this and SHARE WIDELY.

� WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED FILLING OUT and SUBMITTING, please write “Done and shared” in the comments.