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 […]
