When Napa County’s police radio traffic went dark Sept. 1, residents lost a decades-old window into law-enforcement activity — a quiet but consequential change that arrived weeks before Berkeley ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul should sign a bill on her desk that would preserve access to police radio transmissions for media organizations and first responders. For the media, such access is necessary to ...

MOORHEAD — Police scanners will no longer have real-time Moorhead Police Department radio communications as the department moves to encrypted radio transmissions. In a press release Monday, Nov. 3, ...

Boulder’s police radios will no longer be available for curious minds and ears starting Tuesday. Up until now, anyone interested in what the Boulder Police Department was doing could go to a police ...

Police procedurals have been one of the most consistently popular genres since the early days of TV, with shows like “Dragnet” and “The Plainclothesman” thrilling audiences during the dawn of ...

After weeks of technical hiccups, nearly every law enforcement agency across the East Bay has now silenced their police radios. Before sunrise Wednesday, all but one Alameda County agency pulled ...

My first big-time gig at the Staten Island Advance back in the 1990s was as an overnight cop and fire reporter. The major part of my job was listening to police dispatch transmissions over a radio ...

Law enforcement agencies across Contra Costa County began shielding their radio chatter from the public this week, ending decades of transparency and closing shut a key window into crime across the ...

The multi-million dollar effort to remove public access to police radio communications across the East Bay has a new start date, roughly a month after similar plans were undone by a technology snafu.

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 ...

A spokesperson said the city made its police radio traffic public temporarily so that outside agencies could simultaneously communicate on unencrypted channels. As numerous law enforcement agencies ...