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For immediate release:
August 16, 2021
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Portland, Oregon. – PETA just filed an illegal police tracking complaint in its lawsuit against Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), which is already seeking to prosecute OHSU for deliberately deleting videos of school alcohol experiments on steppe voles. PETA filed a motion with Multnomah County District Court today to add these new lawsuits. A copy of the group’s proposed revised complaint is available here.
During the PETA litigation it discovered that at least three OHSU police officers, including the chief of police, receive intelligence on PETA’s activities almost daily from a company called Information Network Associates (INA). Oregon law prohibits law enforcement from collecting such information unless it is directly related to a criminal investigation, which PETA notes OHSU oversight does not have. Among other “threats,” INA informed OHSU about PETA’s blog posts and social media activity.
“The tapes show that even though OHSU is clearly hiding its own videos of mindless alcohol experiments on animals, it violates PETA’s rights,” says PETA Senior Vice President Katy Guillermo. “PETA is pushing for the court to end the strange surveillance campaign of the school and hold it accountable for its bias against PETA.”
PETA had previously expanded the lawsuit to include the First Amendment and claim equal protection after it learned that OHSU experimenters had apparently removed the videotapes of the experiments to ensure they “didn’t fall into the wrong hands.” OHSU then misled PETA for months about the video’s existence.
PETA, whose motto is in part that “animals are not ours to experiment on” – opposes arrogance, a worldview focused on human excellence. For more information please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…
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