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"The new board of Safe Harbor no-kill animal shelter has made a public records request to the Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control, seeking \"any and all records\" pertaining to euthanasia or animals picked up by ACC from \"any Safe Harbor facility.\"The request asks for records going back 22 years.Kay-Lynette Roca was the director and chief executive officer of Safe Harbor for 28 years until a new board abruptly fired her in December and launched a criminal investigation with the Jupiter Police Department, claiming misappropriation of funds.\"I have never, ever in 28 years sent a Safe Harbor pet that someone has entrusted to me, signed over to me, to Animal Control, God strike me dead standing here, ever,\" Roca said outside of her Tequesta home.\u00A0Roca said the shelter's policy was to refer people with unwanted pets to other shelters only if Safe Harbor was already full.She said the request was a \"witch hunt\" designed to manufacture evidence against her, but for what purpose, she doesn't know.\"Isn't it enough they took my job of 28 years from me? My family and\u00A0I have been persecuted by these people,\" Roca said. \"It's been three months and\u00A0I still don't know what I'm being investigated for. How fair is that?\"In January, Jupiter police raided Roca's home and took away computers, cellphones and boxes of other items. Her attorney, Mitchell Beers, said the search warrant did not specify what they were seeking.Roca, speaking publicly for the first time since the investigation began, said she is \"beyond angry\" and vows that investigators will find she did nothing wrong.\"You will never, ever find anything on me that is illegal, unethical, that is immoral,\" Roca said.The shelter's new acting director, Carol Verdigi, who led the move to have Roca removed, referred calls to the shelter's attorney, who said he could not comment on the records request.ACC Director Dianne Sauve said, to her knowledge, Safe Harbor or Roca had never brought animals to the county during Sauve's tenure there.View, Share Pet Photos On WPBF.com's u local:9198764"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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