Camille Marino
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Camille Marino | |
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 Marino with her dog Max (2011) | |
| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) |
Camille A. Marino (born 1964) is an American animal rights activist. Marino is known for her extreme tactics against medical researchers that she alleges use animal experimentation, including doxing, harassment and death threats, as well destruction of property.[1]
In 2009, she founded Negotiation Is Over (NIO) which advocated diverse tactics including intimidation and violence. The group was composed of small cells of activists working in dozens of countries on several continents. In 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center classified NIO as a domestic hate group.[1] NIO's local campaign to stop animal experimentation at the University of Florida was named Eleventh Hour for Animals.
University of Florida
In 2010, she sued the University of Florida (UF) after they refused to disclose public information about their animal experimentation program.[2] On December 30, 2011, Circuit Court Judge Martha Ann Lott ordered UF to disclose their primate experimentation records.[3] Information that was redacted in those documents was challenged and in February 2013, a precedent was set in Florida when an appeals court ruled that the locations of the University of Florida's animal labs were public record.[4]
On February 4, 2012, Camille Marino was arrested protesting primate experimentation at The University of Florida. She was to be extradited to face charges in Detroit leveled by a Wayne State University researcher.[5]