Tape recordings of calls made to the 911 number constitute public information. Tex. Att'y Gen. ORD-519 (1989). Such records are subject to public disclosure even if they are held by a "911 network district" established under the Emergency Communication District Act. Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. §§ 772.201-772.229 (formerly Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat. Ann. art. 1432d); Tex. Att'y Gen. ORD-519 (1989); see also Tex. Att'y Gen. ORD-633 (1995) (although this opinion addresses the withholding of a police narrative report, it notes that the City of Waco was willing to release the 911 audiotape copy of the incident made the subject of the report). A police department's "radio logs" or "radio cards" that describe the police department's records of all calls answered by the police, including a brief description of the nature or reason for the call and its location, generally are public, although exceptions might arise exempting the names of complainants. Tex. Att'y Gen. ORD-394 (1983).
Additionally, the 911 Emergency Number Act makes confidential the originating telephone numbers and addresses of 911 callers that are furnished by a service supplier. Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. § 772.218(c); see also Tex. Atty. Gen. Op. OR 11538 (2011) (911 calls made on specified dates pertaining to a specified address may be withheld because although case is inactive, Houston Police Department indicated case may be reactivated once additional leads are developed). Records prepared by emergency medical services personnel can be public, unless the information relates to highly intimate or embarrassing facts, such as information concerning a drug overdose, acute alcohol intoxication, obstetrical or gynecological illness, and severe emotional or mental distress; such exempt information is confidential under common law and constitutional privacy grounds. Tex. Att'y Gen. ORD-487 (1988). Emergency medical service records also may be excepted from public disclosure under the Medical Practice Act, Tex. Occ. Code Ann. § 159.002, if the records were created under the delegated authority of a physician unless the documents are requested by a person who bears a written consent of the patient or other person authorized to act on the patient's behalf for release of confidential information. Tex. Att'y Gen. Nos. ORD-598 (1991), ORD-578 (1990).