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 ...

(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 ...

The plan for civilian police scanners to go dark pushed a host to shut down his popular breaking news feed. EVERETT — As a young child, Daron Johnson listened to his dad’s police scanners. In his ...

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 ...

BERKELEY — Police scanners in Berkeley will officially be encrypted starting Thursday morning, officials said Wednesday. Scanner encryption, the process of shifting officers and dispatch communication ...