The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and three other media outlets sued Dane County and Madison Tuesday for withholding public records, including a tape of a 911 call made from a murdered college student’s cell phone.
The media groups are seeking the tape and other public records related to a 911 call made from Brittany Sue Zimmermann’s cell phone around the time she was killed April 2. Officials have acknowledged that the 911 dispatcher did not call Zimmermann’s phone back as is required under county protocol, but they have refused to release a copy of the tape, an uncensored copy of an investigation into how the call was handled and other documents.