The San Jose Animal Care Center is not complying with basic guidelines, as revealed in a 133-page audit. Public works director Matt Loesch recommends forming a community action committee to address key recommendations, including spay/neuter services and low-cost veterinary access. However, the committee has yet to meet or engage stakeholders. Additionally, $100,000 set aside for a nonprofit foundation related to the center has remained unallocated for two years. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has stopped national crisis services for LGBTQ+ youth, prompting concerns about increased risks for vulnerable individuals.
Even after a scathing 133-page city audit was released in November that highlighted that the San Jose Animal Care Center wasn't in compliance with basic Association of Shelter Veterinarian guidelines, public works director Matt Loesch has failed to engage the community that the animal shelter serves. In the city audit, Loesch himself recommends that a community action committee be created to assist shelter staff in developing solutions for four specific audit recommendations, mainly involving increased spay/neuter services, growing access to low-cost vet services and expanding rescue partnerships.
As a mental health professional for more than 47 years, with substantial experience and knowledge of the profound challenges facing the LGBTQIA+ community, I read of the Trump administration's decision to no longer provide national suicide and crisis services to LGBTQ+ youth with horror. Their additional mean-spirited decision to omit the T for transgender is equally abhorrent.
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