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Lynn Schulman and the NYC Council Have Solved the 30-Year ACC Crisis

Or they just altered the descriptor for their rescheduled ACC hearing to omit the word "crisis." One of the two.

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Brad Aaron
Aug 16, 2024
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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.

NYC Council Member Lynn Schulman. Video still: NY1

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It’s August 16, 2024. This is The Weekly Poop.

This week, The Scoop New York learned that the New York City Council has, for the third time this year, scheduled an NYC ACC oversight hearing.

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The hearing was scheduled, then rescheduled, last spring. It was later canceled, days after TSNY published an all-hands alert.

But it wasn’t the publicity, according to the office of Queens council rep Lynn Schulman.

Schulman chairs the council health committee, whi…

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