Police radio communications have been public ever since the Detroit Police Department began broadcasting one-way transmissions to mobile officers on station KOP in the 1920s. In fact, in those early ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The Metro Nashville Police Department plans to roll out a system that would encrypt their radio channels from reaching the public. Anyone who listens to radio traffic through ...

There was a time when it was easy to eavesdrop on police and other service radio networks. Police scanners fans can hear live police, fire, and ambulance calls. However, it isn’t as easy as it used to ...

Many Colorado communities are less informed about local law enforcement — the component of government that often warrants the most scrutiny — because a parade of police agencies in the last couple of ...

(Updated at 10:35 a.m.) A public-records request sheds light on how the Arlington County Police Department justified a change to what the public can hear via police radio channels. The Freedom of ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City Council is holding a hearing Monday on the NYPD's planned upgrade to its decades-old radio system. No one disputes the need for an upgrade. What makes this ...

Having the public listen in to police radios allows the press, citizens and watchdogs to keep track of what was happening and where and we applaud the “Keep Police Radio Public Act,” passed by the ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu’s interim police chief is opposing allowing the media to have access to police radio scanners, despite sounding open to it last month. Newly appointed interim Chief ...

Members of the public and the press who routinely listen in on New York City's police radio channels may no longer have the ability to do so if the NYPD goes ahead with plans to encrypt its ...

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Police Department is among the latest law enforcement agencies in California to transition to encrypted police radio communications, thus preventing media outlets from ...