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 most newsrooms, a scanner that picks up on local police and fire communications provides a constant stream of background noise that often prompts reporters to leap into action when they hear ...

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 ...

OAKLAND — The Oakland Police Department’s plan to shield its officers’ conversations from the public hit an unexpected snag this week. The agency on Thursday said “unexpected technical issues” delayed ...

Police departments around the country are working to shield their radio communications from the public as cheap, user-friendly technology has made it easy for anyone to use handheld devices to keep ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. (Valley News Live) - Those who own a police scanner in Moorhead lost access to live police communications on Nov. 3 when the department encrypted radio transmissions, citing officer ...

Law enforcement agencies across Brazos County have encrypted their radio communications, cutting off public access to police ...

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 ...

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 ...