Courtroom Orders UW to Pay PETA $540,000 in Open Information Lawsuit

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October 14, 2022

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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Seattle – Please see the next assertion from PETA Basis Director of Litigation Asher Smith relating to the resolution by the King County Superior Courtroom, filed right this moment, awarding PETA $539,902.45 in charges and penalties in its public information lawsuit towards the College of Washington (UW).  The court docket discovered that UW had didn’t undertake an sufficient seek for information, together with photographs and movies, related to experiments carried out at its Washington Nationwide Primate Analysis Heart and paperwork detailing monetary and management crises in addition to animal deaths. The court docket additionally discovered UW liable based mostly on its coverage of routinely destroying photographs and movies, making it unattainable for the varsity to adjust to public information legislation. The choice was issued solely days after Sen. Cory Booker known as on the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers to research “why this deeply troubled facility continues to obtain federal funding.”

Evading scrutiny of controversial experiments on monkeys by concealing and destroying public information has penalties. That’s the $540,000 message the King County Superior Courtroom despatched to the College of Washington right this moment. The college squanders billions of public {dollars} a yr, a undeniable fact that underscores its cruelty, incompetence, and contempt for accountability. The last word consequence is clear: The Washington Nationwide Primate Analysis Heart have to be shut down.

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