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OCTOBER 2005
Acker cleared
MONROE, Ct.––Animal Adoption Network founder Fred Acker, of Monroe, Connecticut, was on September 4, 2005 cleared by the Bridgeport Superior Court of all charges brought against him by the Town of Monroe in December 2004, including 84 counts of neglect and running an unlicensed pet shop.
Acker contends that the charges were filed as result of a zoning dispute. Acker bought a former boarding kennel in 1999 and converted it into the Animal Adoption Network shelter over opposition from influential neighbors.
ANIMAL PEOPLE summarized the case in an April 2005 cover feature entitled “Demolition, eviction, & good deeds that save animal shelters.”