The Boston Police Department’s radio transmissions are entering the digital age Saturday, much to the chagrin of local scanner enthusiasts. The agency announced its plans earlier this week to convert ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Those in the Peoria area who listen to police radio traffic on their phones or on radio scanners heard silence Tuesday. The silence was due to the planned encryption of the main ...

Prince William County police transitioned from open dispatch traffic to fully encrypted police radio transmissions earlier ...

BERKELEY — Police scanners in Berkeley could soon go silent, but transparency concerns remain among some current and former city leaders who say they’d like to first see more discussion on the issue ...

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 ...

Members of the public who listen to St. Paul police’s emergency radio dispatches will be met by radio silence beginning this fall. The police department is moving to encrypt its communications with ...

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 ...

(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 ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Starting Thursday, Minneapolis Police Department scanner traffic will be off ...

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 ...