The county's primary law enforcement radio traffic remains unencrypted.

For decades, the Oakland Police Department’s radio communications were open for anyone to listen to. All that was required was a piece of off-the-shelf radio equipment, a scanner. And for years, the ...

It was police radio traffic on the scanner that drew freelance photojournalist Juan Ruiz to an Encanto home last year, where he captured video footage of an unarmed man being bitten by a police dog ...

In November of last year, John Calvo, a production chief engineer at Raytheon, embarked on a new project as part of his two hobbies: vibe coding and data analytics. With coding help from Claude AI, he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Those in the Peoria area who listen to police radio traffic on their phones or on radio scanners heard ...

EVERETT — Police radio communications across Snohomish County will be encrypted starting May 6, cutting off public access to real-time scanner traffic, officials announced Tuesday at a press ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis will cease public broadcasts of its police radio communications starting in May and shift to online dashboards for the public to track emergency incident responses. In a news ...

Public safety agencies in Austin — police, fire and EMS — will soon go radio silent to the public after they switch to an encrypted radio system. This means that the current publicly available scanner ...

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 ...

Having the public listen in to police radios allows the press, citizens and watchdogs to keep track of what was happening and where and we applaud the “Keep Police Radio Public Act,” passed by the ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Honolulu City Council is trying to pressure the Honolulu Police Department to release more information about emergencies and criminal activity. Television executives ...