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PETA Says It is Suing Pasadena, Police Chief Over Alleged Failure to Hand Over Records

Published on Thursday, July 16, 2015 | 9:44 am
 

[Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story contained information published in error. Pasadena Now regrets that technical malfunction and appropriately updating the story as soon as the error was detected.]

 

PETA says it filed a lawsuit Thursday morning against the City of Pasadena and Pasadena Chief Phillip L. Sanchez challenging what it says is the city’s failure to comply with PETA’s Public Records Act requests for records relating to “Thomas Jones,” the Sea World protester PETA claims “attempted to incite animal advocates to perform illegal acts and was recently exposed as SeaWorld employee Paul T. McComb.”

PETA says it submitted the requests in a move designed to determine SeaWorld’s relationship with the Pasadena Police Department.

In a press release, PETA says it believes Pasadena Police and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department “clearly had knowledge of PETA’s plan (and seemingly an exaggerated version of it), as they sent more than a dozen PPD officers and sheriff’s deputies in full riot gear to escort the SeaWorld float.”

The lawsuit filed by PETA reportedly alleges that “Jones” was the only one out of 16 adult protesters who was released with no charges after they were arrested.

PETA says it wishes to examine the arresting officer’s notebook, which should contain details of any arrest.

“SeaWorld continually covers up the suffering of orcas in its concrete tanks, and now we wonder if the Pasadena Police Department is covering up the extent to which it has been used by this particular SeaWorld spy,” says PETA’s general counsel, Jeffrey Kerr.

PETA’s lawsuit states that all of the protesters were handcuffed, taken to the police station, lined up, and ordered to remove their belts and shoelaces but that while the other protesters were booked, charged, and listed in the daily arrest log, “Jones” was separated from them at booking and released.

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