County and law enforcement decision makers are still considering ways to balance transparency and privacy as encryption plans ...

As a young child, Daron Johnson listened to his dad’s police scanners. In his teens, he bought his own. For the last 15 years ...

[Harrison Sand] just finished a guide on how to use SDR to listen in on Police and Fire radio bands ... that law enforcement was moving to encrypted communications systems. But all we really ...

While many have access to the stronger encryption methods, few would want to hear they use a compromised radio system. TETRA is used by police forces across the Middle East, including Iran ...

On Jan. 5, the Palo Alto Police Department switched all police radio communications to an encrypted channel to comply with a state requirement. Embarcadero Media file photo. In a sudden move that ...

The Palo Alto Police Department is one of dozens around ... The bill does not require agencies with encrypted radio communications to decrypt. It would allow agencies to comply with the bill ...

Try tuning into the police radio channel in Pasadena, Calif., and you’ll hear nothing but static. On Jan. 7, the Pasadena Police Department completed a transition to encrypted radio communications ...

Transparency concerns have followed similar shifts to encrypt police communications at other departments around the country.

The Visalia Police Department is going radio silent as it has officially switched from clear to encrypted radio operations, ...

The Libertarian DOGE Derangement Syndrome? A Blessed Refuge from Wokeness Should police communications be allowed to become encrypted and no longer immediately available to the press and the public?

Now he wonders how encryption could affect police transparency. “When things are fully transparent as they are with the scanner, it’s, arguably, a clear look into what’s happening in a live ...