For years, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher advised his deputies to monitor the social media pages of devout police radio ...

Oakland leaders don’t appear to be informed about OPD’s decision to hide its radio broadcasts from the public. Critics say ...

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 ...

The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) has condemned the Oakland Police Department's decision to encrypt all radio ...

Dartmouth Police announced they've fully encrypted their radio communications, upgrading their system in a move they described as safeguarding the public's personal information and ensuring increased ...

The glitch appears rooted in a broader, little-publicized push to silence similar police scanner traffic across Alameda and ...

Anyone who owns a police scanner in Owensboro-Daviess County may have noticed it has gone silent. For the general public — and for news outlets that previously heard daily city police department ...

The Emergency Communications Center is pictured on Nov. 3, 2023, on the second floor of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. The days of police business being aired over a “scanner” are nearing ...

Starting Wednesday, all OPD radio traffic will be encrypted, cutting off public access to real-time dispatch calls for the first time in years.

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 ...