The Tacoma Police Department has decided against using ShotSpotter gunshot detection after a three-year trial funded by an ...

Napa County has joined more than 100 California law enforcement agencies in encrypting police radio communications, ending decades of public access and sparking renewed debate over transparency ...

Opponents of full encryption shared concerns that the public will lose an important tool for monitoring police activity and ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul should sign a bill on her desk that would preserve access to police radio transmissions for media organizations and first responders. For the media, such access is necessary to ...

Police Commissioner Richard Chambers says the publication of an audio recording of police radio communications from the night ...

Berkeley has a proven track record as a champion for transparency. Will this City Council vote for government secrecy instead?

Encrypting scanners will align the Berkeley Police Department with all other law enforcement offices in the East Bay which ...

This article has been edited to reflect it was the Scanner of Warren that reported the threats, not Macomb County Scanner — Two men have been charged in separate cases with threatening the lives of ...

In recent days, local residents and advocates have begun to speak out about a push by Berkeley police to make all their radio transmissions private. Some said they listen to online scanner apps when ...

The approval came despite more than two dozen public commenters who objected to the proposal as well as the process of how it was placed on the City Council's consent calendar, which is a list of ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul should sign bill requiring law enforcement to make encrypted communications available to news media and ...