I was thinking about writing a short “how-to” entry on how to create videos with abortion clinic 911 calls. I might elaborate more later, but here’s a short explanation. People are often shocked to find out that we can easily get recordings of any 911 call. Simply, these are public domain. Anyone can call their local police or law enforcement department and order recordings of 911 calls coming from an abortion clinic. In fact, if you are a Christian witness at an abortion clinic and see anything unusual, you can call 911. Not only can you get the 911 call you made, but also any phone calls between the operators and the dispatch units.
The simple version:
1. Whenever you know of a 911 call coming from an abortion clinic you can get the tape or CD from your city or county.
2. Then you just need to use a simple video editing program to lay out an audio track.
3. Then edit any relevant images, graphics, captions or video over the audio track.
4. Then render it as a video file of any type. Different editing programs use various “codecs” to encode video, but YouTube can read and use them all.
5. Then you upload to YouTube. All you need to do is to register an account with them and you can upload any video you have in almost any format.
If you still have no idea how to do what I just explained, then I suppose you could always ask someone like me to help.
I know people who have years of video materials chronicling shocking events at abortion clinics. Now is the time to get these out to the general public.
Since blogs are published with RSS feeds, one blog can appear in many different places. Some blogs are simply just “aggregates” of other blogs that appear with a similar subject matter. The video is showing up all over the place.
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Public Domain is NOT the same as having access to public records.
911 calls have personally identifiable information in them. As such they are protected by the agencies that have them Nevada.
Once you convince a judge that it is in the public interest to release them, THEN you can use them however you want because they are public domain.
But youtube in general could use a better restriction system, including better filtering of the comments (which are unfortunately often rife with unrestricted profanity.)
I don't have any experience with the policy of Nevada on this.
But they are public domain in Florida and I would guess many other states. You would have to check with your local police department.
If you listen to the tapes on my videos you can hear (and read) where personal information, names, times, etc. were deleted from the tapes before they were released to the public.
The calls we received ARE public otherwise we never would have been able to get the tapes and CDs.
911 calls in the US are NOT and never have been in the Public Domain. They are, however, a part of the public record – which is not the same thing. Several states have laws restricting the release of 911 calls. Several more will require you to fill out a Freedom Of Information Act form.