Local authorities may have known about those dogs. Animal Control had been out there before.
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/08/23/postal-worker-dies-after-putnam-county-dog-attack/
More at the above.
Interesting window treatments those folks have.
Local and national authorities seem to know a lot about a lot of dangerous things.
If it's a threat to THEM, they'll be all over it.
You and me?
Not so much. And don't try to protect yourself.
That's a threat to THEM, and they'll be all over it.