The Jersey City City Council at their Wednesday meeting voted to introduce two ordinances to impose more regulations upon the city’s Animal Control division.
One ordinance would establish a nine-member Jersey City Animal Control Commission, and the second ordinance a position of an Animal Control Ombudsman within the Office of the Mayor’s Action Bureau.
Jersey City Councilman Steven Fulop said the new ordinances that he crafted was requested by a downtown Jersey City resident whose cat was captured in a neighbor’s house in February only to be allegedly dumped in Lincoln Park by city workers rather than taken to the Liberty Animal Shelter.
The City Council at their next meeting on April 20 will vote on the ordinances. — Ricardo Kaulessar
JC City Council introduces Animal Control ordinances
