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We can certainly understand the impulse behind Assemblywoman Norma Torres' proposal to restrict public access to 911 emergency calls. But that doesn't mean we agree with it. Quite the contrary.
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A private investigator is making a second attempt to gain access to 911 calls that were made when a Fayette County teenager was killed two years ago in a vehicle accident. Ewing Marcus Marietta II, 18, of South Connellsville, died July 15, 2009, three days after the accident in North Union. Police said Marietta was ejected from his car when it hit a concrete barrier on Route 40 East near Hopwood and rolled over.
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By Veronica Gonzalez The Virginian-Pilot
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Calls to the local 911 operations center increased for a third- straight year in 2010. The Columbia/Boone County Office of Emergency Management is reporting a 1.14 percent increase from 2009 totals, with 71,092 emergency calls for the year. The increase is the second consecutive year calls topped the 70,000 mark, according to a news release.
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HACKENSACK, N.J. - A California couple with a 2-year-old daughter is awakened late at night by heavily armed police storming their home after a false report of a shooting. A Texas family is stunned when officers with automatic weapons respond to their house expecting a drug-fueled murderer who is demanding $50,000 in exchange for hostages.
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Richard Poplawski admitted in phone calls to a friend and 911 dispatchers that he was killing police officers at his home, jurors in his capital murder case learned on Tuesday. I shot three cops," Michael Bogert, 18, testified that Poplawski told him in a phone call before he surrendered. "I got shot. I'm probably going to bleed to death, or go to jail for the rest of my life.
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SEAL BEACH -- Sobs, screams and whispers were recorded as more than half a dozen calls were made to 911 last Wednesday as a lone gunman stormed a hair salon and methodically gunned down nine people, killing eight, including his ex-wife. As a dispatcher tries to get information from one woman who is with a victim who fled the salon unharmed the sounds of people crying and gasping can heard in the background.
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NASHVILLE - Written consent would be required to broadcast 911 emergency calls in Tennessee under a proposal advancing in the Senate. The proposal sponsored by Republican Sen. Jim Tracy of Shelbyville was approved 23-8 on Thursday. The companion bill is awaiting a House floor vote.
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Residents of Kanawha and Lincoln counties in the 756 exchange experienced problems calling 911 Wednesday night, due to a telephone outage. The outage caused 911 calls to be rerouted to the Alum Creek Volunteer Fire Department.
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Periodically, recordings of 9-1-1 calls make the news. Typically, the story involves a household pet who somehow manages to work a phone to alert authorities in a time of crisis. Or a child whose heartbreakingly young voice reports a hurt parent or sibling. Or a celebrity. The taped emergency call after Michael Jackson's fatal overdose in 2009 has become part of the public record. So has one involving actress Demi Moore, who collapsed last month in connection with smoking "something." It was later reported that she had inhaled nitrous oxide.
