Until recently, a dog bite victim attempting to hold a dog owner strictly liable for damages had to show that the dog—regardless of breed—had a vicious propensity known to the owner or that which the owner should have known. In Tracey v. Solesky, the Court of Appeals held that, on proof that a dog involved in an attack is a pit bull or a mixed-breed pit bull and that the owner knows, or has reason to know, that the dog is a pit bull or a mixed-breed pit bull, that person is strictly liable for the resulting damages.
The Solesky ruling drew criticism from dog owners, animal advocacy groups, landlords, and insurers. Opponents of the rule change decried the application of a different standard of liability to pit bulls and mixed-breed pit bulls based on questionable statistics and scientific studies, to say nothing of the consequences of holding landlords to a higher liability, absent consideration of the lengthy legal process needed to remove a tenant from a rental property.
The court decision has also led to threats of eviction from rental housing for pit bull owners forced to choose between their homes and their pets. This has had the unintended consequence of flooding animal shelters with abandoned pit bulls, and needless euthanizing of hundred of animals. The task force met on two occasions in June , leading to the introduction of several bills to address the Solesky decision during the Second Special Session of However, the General Assembly failed to reach a consensus during the brief special session.
On August 21, , the Court of Appeals reconsidered its original decision and limited the application of its original ruling in the Solesky case to purebred pit bulls. Animal advocates and landlords commented that because the original and revised decisions do not define what constitutes a "pit bull," the court gave little direction to dog owners, landlords, and others affected by the ruling, and enforcement of the ruling will be difficult and arbitrary.
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The city has bins to distribute, but will need additional funding if it finds significant demand, she said. Williams said in that he wanted to roll out PhilaCan citywide, but Lewis said budgetary constraints mean it is unlikely the city will ever provide cans to all of its , potentially eligible households.
She also said the program may not be cost-effective on all blocks, for example in neighborhoods where homes already have ample trash storage space.
Trash Talk: Working toward a clean Philadelphia. As Baltimore continues to implement its trash bin program, Garbark noted that his department is also pursuing other waste management improvements. To make recycling just as easy, last month Baltimore started distributing , rolling, lidded recycling carts for residents to use along with their city-issued garbage bins. Other steps the city is taking to improve its trash situation include quicker responses to reports of illegal dumping and, as in Philadelphia, a new plastic bag ban that started this month.
Baltimore also organizes community cleanup events and has launched a pilot program that hires residents to clean streets as a pathway toward a job at the DPW. This article is part of Sanitation Solutions, a series supported by the Solutions Journalism Network. At these locations, which are typically used to collect single-stream recycling and large bulk items, residents can now dispose of food scraps six days a week at varying hours.
The pilot program will run about three to four months, Oldendorf says. Through the data collected throughout the program, city officials are also hoping to have a better grasp of which drop-off site is the most popular the Sisson Street Drop-Off Center is in the lead thus far , the volume of the food waste at each site, and regular drop-off routines to further optimize the waste pick-up and composting resources.
So far, the project seems to be off to a good start. As of last week, the city has collected just shy of pounds of food scraps from the five sites.
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