Decatur police are moving to encrypted radios to protect sensitive information.

The San Diego Police Department is among the latest law enforcement agencies in California to transition to encrypted police radio communications, thus preventing media outlets from listening to ...

BERKELEY, Calif. - The Berkeley City Council voted 8-1 last week to restrict public access to the police department's real-time dispatch radio traffic. The move to encrypt radio communications was ...

We verify if it's legal to decrypt encrypted police scanner traffic, after a local department announced it's moving to encrypted dispatch and radio communications.

They urged the chief to reconsider full encryption, citing the Palo Alto Police Department as an example. After abruptly encrypting all radio feeds in January 2021, Palo Alto police reversed course ...

BRAZOS COUNTY (KBTX) - Brazos County law enforcement agencies said Tuesday they are willing to meet with KBTX to discuss their abrupt announcement of a decision to fully encrypt police radio ...

(TNS) — Full public access to police scanner activity in the East Bay will soon be unavailable after Berkeley councilmembers gave the city’s police department permission to encrypt radio ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state lawmakers have passed a bill to preserve media access to police radio feeds as law enforcement agencies increasingly encrypt their communications. The proposal, ...

The City of Decatur announced on Tuesday that the police department is moving to encrypted dispatch and radio communications.

This guest essay reflects the views of Jeffrey Bessen, managing editor of Herald Community Media, and the Press Club of Long Island board, of which he is a member. Gov. Kathy Hochul's Dec. 19 veto of ...

Listening to Boston police radio transmissions over old-school scanner equipment will soon yield nothing but dead air. The Boston Police Department said Wednesday that it will convert its analog radio ...