South Houston Animal Shelter director faces more allegations from former animal control officers

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More allegations are being brought against the director of the City of South Houston's Animal Shelter by former animal control officers who resigned.

On Thursday, shelter director Jana Martinez offered to give us a tour of the shelter on Friday. We got the tour, but Martinez wasn't there.We were met by an animal control officer, the city's HR representative, and the only shelter employee we saw during our visit.There are a lot of great dogs at the shelter, but Martinez told us not one dog has been adopted from the shelter since 2022.For the most part, the shelter was clean but smelled like bleach.

But two former animal control officers who resigned and the founder of a rescue group told us Martinez kept six of her own dogs and six of her own cats at the shelter for at least a year and a half. We have video and pictures of them."At least all the time I worked there for a year and a half, she has six dogs and six cats," Savannah said.

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