A lawsuit has been filed against the Brevard County Board of Commissioners for illegally suspending key portions of a 13-year-old county ordinance establishing Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in Brevard County.

The suit asks the court to determine that the Board of County Commissioners violated both state and local law when they suspended key provisions of the TNR ordinance and imposed a moratorium on new registrations of colonies without proper advance public notice and hearing. The commissioners acted after a single citizen raised objections to TNR.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a citizen of Brevard County who was refused legal registration of a feral cat colony she had been caring for on a property adjacent to hers under the Brevard County Trap-Neuter-Return ordinance, including neutering and vaccinating cats with her own money. Just days after the Board’s illegal actions, the citizen discovered animal control workers trapping the cats, and she was told they would be taken to a local shelter and killed.

The undemocratic actions by Brevard County Commissioners to roll back Trap-Neuter-Returnwithout public input or a votewill have dire consequences for the community. TNR has greatly benefitted the Brevard community for 13 years. Gutting this program will mean a return to the deadly and ineffective policies of the past.

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