Council Bluffs Pit Bull Ban Update
The ban has passed its first reading by 3 -2:
There was a huge crowd in the Council Bluffs City Council chambers Monday night that spilled out into the hallways. Most of them went home disappointed.
The council, on a 3-2 vote, approved the first reading of an ordinance that would ban pit bulls from the city.
Council members Chad Primmer, Dave Tobias and Lynne Branigan supported the ordinance, while Scott Belt and Matt Walsh voted against it.
Walsh called the proposed ordinance a “tragic mistake.”
“We’ll keep fighting,” said ban opponent Sharon Rivera after the vote. “I’m not getting rid of my dog.”
Charlotte Skokan, a leading spokesperson against the ban, added, “There’s three people who aren’t hearing us. (The ban’s) not going to stop dogs from biting.”
The proposed ordinance would make it “unlawful for any person to own, possess, keep, exercise control over, maintain, harbor, transport or sell within the city of Council Bluffs any pit bull.”
It defines “pit bull” as any dog that is an American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier or any dog displaying the majority of physical traits of any one or more of those breeds.
Displaying a majority of the physical traits is the criteria? What about this pit bull?
