For decades, police radio communications were one of the few ways the public and the press could independently understand ...

City officials either don’t know much or didn’t respond to interview requests about police radio encryption District 5 Councilmember Noel Gallo said he didn’t know OPD’s radio channels were available ...

BIG RAPIDS — Big Rapids Department of Public Safety Sgt. Chad Kinsey and officer Andrew Hartung addressed the City Commission ...

Late last month, the citizens of Boulder lost a crucial tool of transparency when the Boulder Police Department began encrypting its communications. While most people are probably most familiar with ...

Attorney General Kwame Raoul has charged a Chicago police officer over allegations the officer accepted payments in exchange ...

The Berkeley Police Department is seeking to encrypt all its radio communications, per a formal request from the department to the Berkeley City Council that will be discussed at its upcoming meeting ...

SALEM — The Salem Police Department has added digital encryption to its radio system to improve security of police officers and limit unauthorized access to personal, identifiable information. The ...

(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 ...

The Boston Police Department’s decision to digitally encrypt its radio transmissions might not seem like something worth our attention in the Berkshires. Nonetheless, when the head of the New England ...

BERKELEY — 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 ...

In recent days, local residents and advocates have begun to speak out about a push by Berkeley police to make all their radio transmissions private. Some said they listen to online scanner apps when ...