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City of Sanford Removes 911 Calls and Police Report From Website

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Sat Apr 07, 2012 at 02:36:12 PM EST
Tags: George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin (all tags)
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For weeks, the City of Sanford has maintained a page on their website dedicated to the Trayvon Martin shooting. It included the 911 calls of George Zimmerman and the neighbors who called 911 to report the shooting. It also included the video of Zimmerman arriving at police station from several camera angles, a written description of his earlier 911 calls and police reports of earlier burglaries in the neighborhood.

No more. Those are gone from the city's page, with this statement:

The office of the State Attorney, 4th Judicial Circuit, State Attorney Angela Corey has requested that the City of Sanford remove all reports, videos and audio pertaining to the Martin/Zimmerman case from the website. Their office has provided legal justification for the action and they believe further access to the information will have an adverse effect on their efforts to come to a resolution to this investigation.

The calls are all over You Tube and other media websites. [More...]

The Seminole County Sheriff's Office website still has the audio of Zimmerman's earlier 911 calls on its website under the "media login" link on its media page. They were released pursuant to an FOIA request.

Our agency released six calls that George Zimmerman made between August 3, 2011 to February 2, 2012. Any audio recordings of calls made prior to August 2011 are no longer available due to server retention space. The released calls were made on a non-emergency line and therefore did not require any redaction under Florida Public Records law.

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    City of Sanford Removes 911 Calls and Police Report From Website | 9 comments (9 topical)

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    Hahahahaha! (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Sat Apr 07, 2012 at 02:38:55 PM EST
    How stupid are these people?

    Oh, I think we already know the answer (5.00 / 1) (#17)
    by ruffian on Sun Apr 08, 2012 at 02:40:00 PM EST
    to that question.

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    A phrase about a horse (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by RickTaylor on Sat Apr 07, 2012 at 03:41:43 PM EST
    and a barn door leaps to mind.

    and (none / 0) (#8)
    by Jeralyn on Sat Apr 07, 2012 at 04:54:17 PM EST
    you can't put toothpaste back in the tube

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    This Easter weekend, I am reminded ... (none / 0) (#11)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sat Apr 07, 2012 at 05:29:28 PM EST
    ... of the biblical verse Hosea 8:7, which reads:

    "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up."


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    it does seem like closing the barn door, (5.00 / 4) (#16)
    by cpinva on Sun Apr 08, 2012 at 07:43:25 AM EST
    after the toothpaste has been squeezed out of the tube by a horse running over it, having been shocked by a cat leaping out of a bag.

    but hey, that's just me.

    Feliz Pascua (none / 0) (#14)
    by fishcamp on Sat Apr 07, 2012 at 07:39:16 PM EST


    Comments about (none / 0) (#15)
    by Jeralyn on Sat Apr 07, 2012 at 08:03:38 PM EST
    racism and other cases deleted.

    Like trying to get pee out of a pool. (none / 0) (#18)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Tue Apr 10, 2012 at 01:45:33 PM EST


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