Councilman Bryant to sponsor legislation removing breed specific language

Amendment will remove breed specific language

9/27/2017

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

 Councilman Bryant to sponsor legislation removing breed specific language

Per City Council request from September 12, 2017; Councilman Don Bryant is sponsoring legislation to amend Mansfield’s breed specific component—section 505.03 which currently bans citizens from owning ‘Pit bulls’ in the City.

This new amendment removes that breed specific language.

Councilman Bryant is requesting final constituent input: comments, concerns, surveys, citizen petitions. You may send e-mails directly to me at: db@donbryant.com or leave information on his office voicemail service: (419) 971-3662. If you would like the councilman to return your phone call, please indicate that in your message.

A formal Safety Committee will be held on Tuesday, October 3rd at 6:30 pm in City Council chambers. If you wish to address the committee, please submit written testimonies by this Friday, September 29th by 3:30 PM. You may e-mail your statements or drop them off to the City Council office: 30 N. Diamond St. Mansfield, OH 44902 (3rd Fl).

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Carol Miller

10/5/2017 10:32:14 am

I am a Cleveland area resident and a pit bull attack victim. The attack upon my horse and I figured into the passage of Lakewood’s current law. The pit bull that attacked us was brought into Lakewood after the attack, under fraudulent state documents, harbored in the bottom half of a rental property, directly across the street from a Lakewood school, by this time uninsured. When the true history of this dog was exposed it was ordered out of Lakewood. The risk of having a known violent dog in a densely populated city was outrageous and was considered when the Lakewood law was written in 2008. I'm sure Mansfield has similar stories.

Pit bull attacks change lives, and sometimes end them. Despite the constant parade of pit bull attack news stories pit bull advocates continue their assault on the home rule rights of cities with breed bans or other forms of BSL. Communities in Ohio have home rule rights to regulate dogs for the purpose of public safety. This has been ruled constitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court twice, Federal District courts in Ohio, Appeals Courts in Ohio, Supreme Courts in multiple other states as well. The United States Supreme Court affirmed constitutionality in 2008 when they refused to hear an appeal on Toledo v. Tellings. A recent Ohio court ruling has been promoted as declaring BSL unconstitutional in the state. This is incorrect framing of the ruling. BSL laws based on old state law that named pit bulls as inherently vicious are no longer viable because state law has changed. Communities just need to do a bit of revision. One Ohio city is already planning an appeal of the Reynoldsburg ruling.

Breed specific advocates attempt to bully communities into dropping breed bans all over Ohio. VERY few of these pit bull advocates live in your community but feel free to impose their choices on your citizens.

What happens when a city drops a pit bull ban? Here are some examples.

Cincinnati, a larger city than yours but an Ohio city that was bullied into dropping their breed ban, is a perfect place to begin. Pit bull advocates demanded that the city’s breed ban be dropped in favor of a law that “mirrors state law” passed in 2012 (HB 14). It should be noted that HB 14 was written in Utah, by attorneys employed by Best Friends Animal Society, not Ohio lawmakers. This law has proven to be a disaster for Ohio residents.

Consider these Cincinnati attacks since the breed ban was dropped.
Within weeks of dropping the breed ban Cincinnati had a fatal pit bull attack. Ronnel Brown was killed by his previously hidden pit bull designer dog mix. http://www.fox19.com/story/18997840/man-dies-after-being-attacked-by-pit-bull-dog-in-avondale

Medical bills following six year old Zainabou Drame’s catastrophic mauling in 2014 quickly climbed to over a million dollars with no end in sight. She will require more surgeries and a lifetime of medical care. Zainabou was in a medically induced coma for weeks, lost her tongue, her face massively damaged, she will never speak, swallow or eat.
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/westwood/zainabou-drame-westwood-6-year-old-girl-mauled-by-pit-bulls-returning-home-from-hospital

Virginia Conlan Whitman was mauled by a pit bull while campaigning for her husband, a judge. Mrs. Whitman required a long hospitalization and extensive rehab. http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/277462/58/Dog-attack-hospitalizes-candidates-wife

Senior citizen Beulah Sheafe was critically mauled by pit bulls while out for a walk, She required a long hospitalization and extensive rehab. Mrs. Sheafe lost part of her scalp and a quarter pound of flesh from her leg. She favors a return to a pit bull ban. http://insurancecompanies.videocloudpro.io/video/x18gzqp/title?src=Dailymotion

A long hospitalization and rehab followed Tammy Tucker’s attack by her own pit bulls. Police described the dogs as “eating her alive.” This was Tucker’s second attack by the same pit bulls. Tucker saw a specialist in aggressive dogs for help after the first attack to “change herself” but finally admitted that the dogs were the problem after all.
http://raycomgroup.worldnow.com/story/25850963/former-pit-bull-owner-recovering-from-near-death-attack-by-breed

Just a day or so ago a young man, a Cincinnati resident, was leaving work when he was attacked by three pit bulls. The attack was captured on security video. The pit bull owner was unable to control his dogs or stop the attack. When the victim escaped, the pit bull owner loaded his pit bulls up in his car and fled, leaving the young man to suffer and bleed, and pay the bills as well.
http://www.fox19.com/story/36163365/vicious-dog-attack-caught-on-camera-police-looking-for-owner#.WZZh6DaHKZg.facebook

In response to the attacks discussed above the headline article of the Cincinnati Enquirer 7/7/2014 was “Something has to change in the city wi

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