{"id":389481,"date":"2026-07-07T18:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389481\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:18:11","slug":"county-animal-services-releases-report-on-strengths-weaknesses-amid-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389481\/","title":{"rendered":"County Animal Services Releases Report On Strengths, Weaknesses Amid Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following her firing, then-director Vaughn Maurice resigned, allowing Sarvis to take over the head role.<\/p>\n<p>The saga didn&#8217;t end there, as Borrelli then filed suit against the county over alleged sexual harassment, defamation and whistleblower retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>Her suit claims a shelter employee last year spread rumors she was hired by the department after having a sexual relationship with former interim director Steve Lujan. The lawsuit states the rumors were false.<\/p>\n<p>Borrelli filed a claim against the county in January before the lawsuit, demanding $8.5 million for &#8220;damages, loss of reputation and loss of earnings,&#8221; KPBS reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 City News Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following her firing, then-director Vaughn Maurice resigned, allowing Sarvis to take over the head role. The saga didn&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-389481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}