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San Diego businesses cracking down on people abusing service dog laws

Posted at 6:21 PM, May 23, 2017
and last updated 2017-05-23 21:45:09-04
SAN DIEGO (KGTV)--Some San Diego stores and restaurants are getting tougher on people abusing service dog laws. 
 
At Urban Mo's in Hillcrest, the problem was big enough that they had to post signs on the doors.
 
Longtime bartender Jason Kordeski has seen firsthand people trying to bring in dogs that are clearly not service animals. 
 
The law says businesses can ask only two specific questions to find out if a dog, is in fact, a service animal.
1) Is the dog a service animal required because of a disability?
2) What work or task has the dog been trained to perform? 
 
 
"When you read specifically from that text its pretty easy to weed out whose lying, whose taking advantage of it," said Kordeski. 
 
Other businesses nearby have similar signs making it clear pets are not allowed inside.