The question of whether police radio transmissions should be encrypted has strong opinions on both sides. My father was Chief on the Prior Lake Fire Department for many years, so I know how important ...

Police scanners are going silent thanks to a new rule requiring the communication system be encrypted. The mandate from the federal government means the frequently-used method by media to track down ...

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 ...

Decatur police are moving to encrypted radios to protect sensitive information.

We verify if it's legal to decrypt encrypted police scanner traffic, after a local department announced it's moving to ...

DENVER (CBS4)- Lawmakers are debating secrecy when it comes to police radio scanners. Some police, fire and sheriff's departments are allowed to hide their radio communications by encrypting them.

Longmont police elected to keep its scanner traffic encrypted after the completion of a pilot program. A report from six months of data collected during the pilot was released in May, with police ...

(TNS) — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Last month, Manchester, N.H., police transmissions accessible to anyone with a radio scanner became unintelligible to those outside the department. After upgrading its ...

Police activity in Baltimore will soon be concealed by the shroud of an encrypted radio system. Thisnew equipment will allowofficers to work without worrying about whether a crafty criminal is ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Colorado journalists on the crime beat are increasingly in the dark. More than two-dozen law enforcement agencies statewide have ...