SJ Mayor's Committee to Consider Records Requests
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KCBS) _ The question of whether to release 911 tapes is once again going before the city of San Jose.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and a committee he appointed will consider two requests this week to overrule police who have declined to release certain records.
For example, the recording of the officer-involved shooting of Daniel Pham, which was released after the city weighed the public's right to know with the privacy of the callers.
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Mayor Reed said the request for 911 tapes should be handled on a case-by-case basis.
"We'll consider these, each individually and probably spend some time thinking about it," said Reed. "Because we want to make sure that when people call 911, they don't have to worry about their identity being given out to criminals."
Jeff Moore, President of the San Jose Silicon Valley NAACP said 911 tapes should be released, but only if a caller's identity is kept secret.
"Once an investigation has been concluded, or if there's a way to censor to keep out sensitive information, we should release it immediately," said Moore.
Two new requests for release involve a man who claims police were wrongly summoned to his home and from another man who is seeking warrant records in a high crime area.
