Our Mission
Dog Beach Now is an alliance of responsible dog owners from Venice and Pacific Palisades who are working together with the community and city officials to create a designated off-leash dog beach where people and their dogs can recreate and socialize. Dog Beach Now is requesting that a one-mile stretch of Dockweiler Beach be designated as an off-leash dog beach. Dog Beach Now makes this request on behalf of the approximately 300,000 dog owners in Los Angeles and the nearly 7,500 citizens of Los Angeles who have signed a petition in favor of an off-leash dog beach. Dog Beach Now is dedicated to maintaining the dog beach's integrity with supplies of doggie bags, signage with the rules of the dog beach and ongoing daily and monthly clean-up.
For more information on our efforts to establish a leash-free dog beach on Dockweiler, visit FREEPLAY
Remembering Mike Gordon
We were profoundly saddened when our champion, Assembly member Mike Gordon, died after a four month battle with a brain tumor on June 25, 2005.
From the moment Mike first heard of our efforts to get a dog beach, he pledged to do everything he could to help us and worked tirelessly to that end. True to his word, one of the first bills he introduced after he was elected Assemblymember was AB 359, a bill that would authorize the County to work with FREEPLAY to establish an off-leash dog beach at Dockweiler State Beach. Unfortunately without Mike to push the bill through it failed.
We are now currently working with Mike Gordon’s successor, Ted Lieu, to bring a new bill to establish a dog beach.