In a new agenda item, posted Thursday, Berkeley police cite two main arguments for encryption: officer safety and state ...

The authority has been working for years to pull public access to officers’ communications, despite deep concerns by police ...

Berkeley Police Department requests to encrypt radio communications, citing officer safety and alignment with regional ...

Before sunrise Wednesday, all but one Alameda County agency pulled public access to communications between officers and ...

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 ...

For 48 hours, conventional police and fire scanners will be unable to hear radio traffic in Cape Girardeau. The silence started at 8 a.m. Tuesday and comes as the result of a temporary transition to ...

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New York state lawmakers voted to stop the NYPD’s attempt to block its radio communications from the public Thursday, with the bill expected to head to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk. The “Keep Police Radio ...

Two Boston lawmakers are demanding a “full investigation” into a police radio failure in the midst of multiple shootings and stabbings on Sunday night, as the department insists the radio issue didn’t ...