Title: 911 Calls

Summary: Prohibits publication or broadcast of recordings of calls to 911 emergency services by minors & recordings of such calls by adults unless voices of all persons recorded are obscured or masked so as to render persons recorded unidentifiable; provides construction.

Full Text:
An act relating to calls; prohibiting the publication or broadcast of recordings of calls to emergency services made by minors; prohibiting the publication or broadcast of recordings of such calls made by adults unless the voices of all persons recorded are obscured or masked so as to render the persons recorded unidentifiable; providing construction; providing criminal penalties; providing an effective date. 11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 13 Section 1. Publishing or broadcasting certain recordings of calls.-(1) A person may not publish or broadcast, or cause or allow to be published or broadcast, through any means of mass communication, including, but not limited to, radio, television, and the Internet, a recording of a call to a telephone emergency service such as "911": (a) Made by a minor. (b) Made by an adult unless the voices of all persons recorded are obscured or masked so as to render the persons recorded unidentifiable. (2) This section may not be construed to abridge the rights of any person that are protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States or s. 4, Art. I of the State Constitution. (3) Any person who violates this section commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083, Florida Statutes. Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2011.