{"id":36992,"date":"2021-06-28T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T21:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36992"},"modified":"2021-06-28T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T21:23:04","slug":"la-county-dacc-appointment-of-new-deputy-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36992","title":{"rendered":"LA County DACC Appointment of New Deputy Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">The Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control (DACC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Animal Control Manager Raul Rodriguez to the position of Deputy Director, North County Operations \/ Public Safety Division.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nThe Deputy Director reports to the Chief Deputy Director and will oversee the Palmdale, Lancaster, and Castaic Animal Care Centers. This position will also oversee the department\u2019s Public Safety Division, which includes Emergency Operations, the Major Case Unit, and the Central Case Processing Unit. The North County Deputy Director oversees the enforcement of ordinances governing the licensing, impounding, keeping, adoption, and exhibition of animals in unincorporated County areas as well as the three cities that contract with DACC for animal care and control services in the North Los Angeles County region.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n\u201cWe are excited to have Raul take on this leadership position for DACC.\u201d says Marcia Mayeda, Director. \u201cRaul\u2019s experience in animal care center operations as well as public service has been exemplary; I know he will be a great asset in leading our North County operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">A 23-year veteran of DACC, Raul has worked at or overseen operations at three of DACC\u2019s seven animal care centers, beginning in enforcement services as a license canvasser. Raul has served on DACC\u2019s management team for the past five years and has been an integral leader in implementing many complex programs of DACC\u2019s, such as the adoption of the Socially Conscious Animal Sheltering model as its operational philosophy. Raul\u2019s leadership played an important role in the implementation of the Department\u2019s newly adopted Managed Intake operating model.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n\u201cI\u2019m honored to serve DACC in the capacity of Deputy Director. I look forward to working with our team in fulfilling the department\u2019s mission to protect the people and animals in our communities and placing animals in forever homes.\u201d Said Raul.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nRaul is a graduate of the USC Price School of Public Policy\u2019s Executive Leadership Development Program, Eagle Leadership\u2019s Leadership Development Program, and the CalAnimals Executive Leadership Certification Program in animal welfare.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"m_-5447625029262109305govd_template_image CToWUd a6T\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ci4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/hf2IHk5QQu5B4eiyAYXpUKJFhxepHgH9tczLrjR789DgiX0M73N-djpvPKW3YHkIetoRFsJibwizMYiP1b7YuQulox4VQSXaTT6c7szoj7kKm-pfePoBzQS5J10OUwcNWedL0F7x7zQzvoE6Xf7OBLU-tspPOuQ5TSvn1jVxE_EsvXg1=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/attachments\/fancy_images\/CALACOUNTY\/2021\/06\/4677848\/3621827\/raul-photo-2_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Raul\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles County Department of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36993,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36992\/revisions\/36993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}