Animal advocates clash with Polk County commissioners over sheriff’s animal control shelter

(This story was revised to make a correction.)

Wearing purple ribbons, animal advocates flooded the Polk County Commission meeting on June 3 to report alleged deplorable conditions at Polk County’s Animal Control facility.

But they were met with pushback from the board, which sets the Sheriff’s Office budget for animal control but does not dictate how Sheriff Grady Judd runs the facility…

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