American cities are encrypting their emergency radio communications over concerns about safety and privacy. By Ernesto Londoño Ernesto Londoño reported from Indianapolis, where he spent hours ...

The NYPD has begun encrypting scanner radios that the press and the public have used to monitor basic police communications for more than 90 years. While the desire to put such communications on an ...

EVANSVILLE — After a man allegedly ambushed and killed Evansville firefighter Robert F. Doerr II in 2019, investigators said he monitored police radio chatter using a smartphone app while he made his ...

A high-ranking Senate Democrat wants to keep police band radio signals available to the press and public. Sen. Michael Gianaris, D-Astoria and Senate deputy majority leader, has introduced the Keep ...

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 ...

(TNS) — Owensboro elected officials were largely in agreement with decisions by Owensboro Police Department and Owensboro Fire Department officials to stop broadcasting radio transmissions over ...