My question involves defamation in the state of: florida
my neighbor intentionally, and without warning, trapped our family cat (with a baited trap on his property) and claimed to have taken him to the pound. ( i searched every pound and shelter in the area and could not find our cat) the police were called, and this man and his wife admitted to the officer that they did this. the police officer told us that, unfortunately, if the cat came on to his property, he was within his rights to trap the cat. (even without warning, and without telling us after..... i saw the trap in the garage, and put 2 and 2 together.) my issue is the man is a local firefighter, and his wife is a local grade school teacher, and should be held to a higher moral standard and i feel they acted with total disregard for my family, as they knew it was our children's pet. this is not the first time the have done something nasty but legal to us. i would very much like for the taxpayers of our county to know what their hard earned tax dollars are going toward.... and i would like to write a carefully worded, "facts only" editorial to the local newspaper, (about the cat incident only) that includes both of their names and occupations. can i be sued for libel by doing so?

