Hawaii County to change barking dog enforcement code
Voice of Stephanie Salazar
South Kona councilwoman Brenda Ford wants to re-write the county code when it comes to barking dogs…
At present, a police officer responding to a call about barking dog must wait for one hour to determine if the animal is being a continued nuisance. Ford says this is an unreasonable burden for the police department.
The issue was debated at a committee meeting earlier this month.
There were two testifierson the subject, and their opinions represented both sides of the issue when it comes to man’s best friend as a potential noise-pest.
The Council Committee on Human Services, Social Services and Public Safety gave bill 27 a positive recommendation. It now goes to the full council for first reading on April 6th.
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The county, and especialy the JUDGES who have NEVER HAD TO SUFFER A BAD NEIGHBOR’s BARKING DOG FOR OVER 5 hours, just in one day, need to address this SERIOUS issue.
There are SERIOUS adverse health effects and the judges and dog owners should be PERSONALLY LIABLE for DIRECTLY contributing to the victim’s adverse health condition as a result of continual barking nuisances!
I hope the judges realize how SERIOUS this issue is, especially when OTHER NEIGHBORS do NOT CALL because of their OWN ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES and VIOLATIONS! It seems only the law abiding citizens gets no reprieve from “justice.” One neighbor, even an RN, has INTENTIONALLY aused harm by threatening to kill a complaintant. She was convicted with merely a “disorderly conduct” charge and a $100 fine for threateneing to “cut a neighbor/victim up. piece by piece, while waving a machete in the dark of her yard…yes other drug besides her marijuana dealing are also suspected!
THIS LAW NEEDS TO BE AGRESSIVELY ADDRESSED, AND police need to PROVIDE EVIDENE CAMERAS/VIDEOS to REPEAT VICTIMS, so the owner WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE…as it stand now, the existaing law is a joke, as well as is the “professionalism” by some officers who are influenced by other citizens!
I cannot BEGIN to tell you how this inequity and violation has been ALLOWED to perpetuate human sufering, on top of the actual violation…there needs to be STRICTER PARAMETERS for both the dog law AND for the violator who THREATENS and/or retaliates against reports made by WITNESSES/VICTIMS…I suffered for OVER FOUR YEARS from selective enforcement and other related corruptions, along with the violations that have CONTINUED for OVER 5 YEARS!!!! Other people suggested poisoning the dog, etc, but I told them, it’s the owner, not the dog’s fault! The dog is actually neurotic because of the neglect of the owner …she just leaves the dog tied out all day and night to intentionally make it bark…hen it runs loose it doesn’t but then it escapes…OVER 40 incidents onto others’ properties…and as ANOTHER form of retaliation, since her conviction, the owner has been throwing dog feces over her fence onto another’s back property, where it ONLY adversely effects the neighbor she INTENDED to harass…and it started AFTER he conviction!
There are some VERY evil and deceitful residents invovled (SPECIFICALLY lying to police and making false counter reports,etc…)…and these are NOT “locals”, as some would have you believe…they are haoles…
the county is TOTALLY LIABLE for DIRECTLY CAUSING human suffering by NOT ADDRESSING this suffering…I am currently looking for an attorney, and after over 300 police reports in the past 5 years, SOMEONE needs to be HELD ACCOUNTABLE for ALLOWING THE CRIMINAL TO CONTINUALLY CAUSE HARM TO THE VICTIM, along with retaliation!!!!!!
This is SO NOT RIGHT!!!!!