{"id":261942,"date":"2026-04-23T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261942\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:28:07","slug":"corpus-christi-withdraws-job-offer-for-animal-care-services-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261942\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi withdraws job offer for Animal Care Services director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> City cites inconsistencies in the candidate\u2019s qualifications during the hiring review process<\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The City of Corpus Christi has withdrawn a job offer for its next Director of Animal Care Services after issues were found during the hiring process.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/corpus-christi-animal-care-director-offer-withdrawn\/503-079c1e63-b1de-47d9-882b-91b0f2d08cee\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City appoints Dr. Antonio Caldwell to lead CC Animal Care Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p>City officials said the conditional offer to Dr. Antonio Caldwell, who had been expected to begin May 18, was pulled after inconsistencies were identified in his qualifications during pre-employment checks. He is no longer being offered the position.<\/p>\n<p>The city had previously announced Caldwell as the new director, citing more than 20 years of leadership experience in animal welfare, along with a background in budgeting, procurement, and organizational management.<\/p>\n<p>Officials did not provide additional details about the discrepancies.<\/p>\n<p>The city says it will continue its search for a new director with the help of an executive recruiter, considering candidates locally and nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City cites inconsistencies in the candidate\u2019s qualifications during the hiring review process CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-261942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}