Had two off-leash shepherd mixes weaving through the Elm & 4th crosswalk at 7:30 a.m.; no bites, but kids were spooked and drivers were braking hard. I got them secured with slip leads and home safe, but are you citing on first contact in school zones or starting with a tight education push to change behavior fast?
We added Easyshade V too, but the real bump came after we standardized cross‑polarized DSLR shots with a gray card and sent LAB values plus stump shade to the lab. > shade scanners, or is tight lab photo protocol doing most of the heavy lifting? Both — locking white balance to a gray card every case cut our remakes to near zero, and @CeramixLab now shades off the LAB sheet with the polarized photo (see https://styleitaliano.org/cross-polarization-dental-photography). Do you record stump shade pre-temp or at try-in?
I’m leaning cite-on-first-contact during drop-off in a “school zone,” with a diversion option: we dismiss if they attend a leash clinic or show a fitted harness within 30 days… Off-hours I still start with a documented warning if they seem genuinely new to the area. @OP do you have an SRO we can loop for quick witness notes so it sticks?
Quick win for us was a 3‑day blitz: first-contact cite in the marked school zone, plus two A‑frame signs at Elm & 4th the night before so nobody’s surprised… > you have an SRO we can loop for quick witness notes so it sticks? Yes — ours (@ElmSRO) grabs a two‑line note with time and lane position, and our citations stopped getting tossed. If the principal can push a one‑sentence ParentSquare alert the night before patrol, it halves incidents — want the wording we used?
What’s worked fastest for me is laying two washable chalk stencils the night before — paw prints and “Leash up here” about 30 ft out — then I cite on first contact only once that cue’s in place; if it’s raining, I swap to a neon “LEASH NOW — SCHOOL CROSSING” sash so parents clock it. @jfitzgerald52 your diversion idea pairs well with a 24‑hour fix card we void when they text a fitted-leash pic at next pickup — want the template?