A complaint against a secretive Hendry County primate facility for 3,200 monkeys can proceed through the court system, circuit judge James Sloan has ruled. In an hour-long hearing, he denied Hendry County’s motion to dismiss a complaint alleging it violated the Sunshine Law by approving a controversial primate facility on the Lee/Hendry border without public […]
Jane Velez-Mitchell Asks What Chapman Is Hiding From – Southwest Florida Online
In town today for a court hearing, cable television personality Jane Velez-Mitchell asked Hendry County Administrator Charles Chapman what he’s hiding. Hendry county asked Circuit Judge James D. Sloan to dismiss a suit against them over a county commissioner and building and zoning officials’ secret meetings and correspondence that changed agricultural zoning regulations to allow […]
Secretive research monkey facilities come under scrutiny in Florida – The Guardian
A series of events has put a tiny Florida county of less than 40,000 residents at the center of national and international controversy regarding monkey breeding and research. They include lawsuits, protests and federal complaints, and threaten to put southern Florida’s Hendry County on the map for the wrong reasons. Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), a […]
