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Demi Moore 911 tape prompts more to adopt privacy bill for calls to police
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — A state lawmaker upset over details revealed in a recent emergency call involving actress Demi Moore is seeking to restrict the sort of information that can be publicly disclosed in 911 tapes.“Eyes rolling back, foaming at the mouth, bleeding from a body part — that’s nobody’s business but the medical personnel and the patient. I think it has crossed the line,” said Assemblywoman Norma Torres, who was a Los Angeles Police Department emergency dispatcher for more than 18 years before her election to the Legislature in 2008.Current law already allows law enforcement agencies to withhold personal details, but Torres’ AB1275 would prohibit them from releasing medical or personal identifying information contained in emergency calls.The measure by Torres, D-Pomona, is one of hundreds proposed by lawmakers ahead of a Friday deadline to introduce bills to be considered this year.This is the second year of a two-year session. Typically, it produces a few hundred bills less than the first year.Last year, lawmakers introduced 2,381 bills and sent 870 of them to the governor, who signed 774 into law.