The county's primary law enforcement radio traffic remains unencrypted.

It was police radio traffic on the scanner that drew freelance photojournalist Juan Ruiz to an Encanto home last year, where he captured video footage of an unarmed man being bitten by a police dog ...

For decades, the Oakland Police Department’s radio communications were open for anyone to listen to. All that was required was a piece of off-the-shelf radio equipment, a scanner. And for years, the ...

In November of last year, John Calvo, a production chief engineer at Raytheon, embarked on a new project as part of his two hobbies: vibe coding and data analytics. With coding help from Claude AI, he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Those in the Peoria area who listen to police radio traffic on their phones or on radio scanners heard ...

EVERETT — Police radio communications across Snohomish County will be encrypted starting May 6, cutting off public access to real-time scanner traffic, officials announced Tuesday at a press ...

Public safety agencies in Austin — police, fire and EMS — will soon go radio silent to the public after they switch to an encrypted radio system. This means that the current publicly available scanner ...

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 ...

Late last month, the citizens of Boulder lost a crucial tool of transparency when the Boulder Police Department began encrypting its communications. While most people are probably most familiar with ...