13 Ignored Questions for Mayor Malik Evans' Rochester Animal Services
Up for reelection, Evans still doesn't want to talk about what goes on at the kill pound he's responsible for.
The Scoop New York is a newsletter dedicated to companion animals and the New Yorkers who care for them, from Buffalo to Brooklyn. NYC ACC KILLS, published by TSNY, enumerates and memorializes adoptable cats and dogs who were nonetheless exterminated by Animal Care Centers of New York City.
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It’s April 4, 2025. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, residents of Rochester are prepping for a public hearing on their city’s troubled kill pound, Rochester Animal Services.
The hearing — which is sponsored by three city council members, including one who will face incumbent Mayor Malik Evans in the June Democratic primary — comes six months after an RAS staffer-turned-whistleblower posted video that showed dogs in feces-covered kennels at the facility.
Weeks before that video was taken, the Evans administration brought in Staci Papadoplos as RAS’ first new director in 25 years.
Any lingering notions that a new director mi…
