Vaughn Maurice, director of San Diego County’s animal services department, has left the county effective last week, according to a county spokesperson.
With Maurice’s departure, the animal services department has now cut ties with its top two officials in less than a month. In late January, KPBS confirmed that Rachael Borrelli, the department’s second in command, was no longer employed by the county.
Borrelli went on leave in September, just as KPBS revealed that she had sent a profanity-laced voice message to a colleague that disparaged dogs at the county’s Carlsbad shelter…