Judicial Watch Sues New York State for Records on Controversial Killing of ‘Peanut the Squirrel’ and ‘Fred the Raccoon’ - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch filed suit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York , Albany County , after the Department of Environmental Conservation failed to comply with two FOIL requests for written and video records related to the seizure, testing and euthanasia of a squirrel named “Peanut” and a raccoon named Fred ” belonging to Pine City , New York resident Mark Longo .