BB>I have still not figured out how they justify those re-broadcasts. 
Something
BB>to do with the peoples' right to know?
Ha!  Good one!  I think it has something to do with the fact that
because of the 1st Amendment people think the news media has a right to
do just about anything.  The public safety types love the attention and
coverage, so who's left to file a complaint?  Mere technicalities,
m'thinks.
BB>The re-broadcasts that really tear me up are the calls to 911. I keep
BB>wondering if they are necessary, and why they aren't on the no-no
BB>list.
Those tapes are released by their "owners," usually local government
agencies, as agents of "the people".  Of course in my experience every
local agency worth its salt releases just about any and everything which
it cares to, so long as those releases further the department's cause!
Try to break loose a 911 tape or a department's radio loggings on tape
which demonstrate anything much less than top flight professionalism --
that's a whole n'other ball game, heh-heh.  The infamous Philadelphia
debacle was caused largely by incompetency (and aided and abetted by an
unfortunate tragicomedy of procedural imponderables -- read "less than
perfect SOPs and common sense training".  Those tapes showed even bigger
flaws in 911 personnel, so they were released to demonstrate that the
city was on the ball and didn't really plan or even want to have its
citizens killed because of the bureaucracy and its bungling.
                                Best, Wm. of Righteous Indignation
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