The Minneapolis Police Department will start using encrypted scanners, meaning news media and members of the public won't be able to listen in real time. Pictured is a file photo of a police scanner ...

Boulder’s police radios will no longer be available for curious minds and ears starting Tuesday. Up until now, anyone interested in what the Boulder Police Department was doing could go to a police ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was police radio traffic on the scanner that drew freelance photojournalist Juan Ruiz to an Encanto home last year, where he captured video footage of an unarmed man being bitten by a police dog ...

In October I wrote a piece about monitoring public safety radio in 2020 using police scanners, digital and analog. It’s worth noting that there is still a fair amount of radio communication on the air ...

Twin Cities More Twin Cities law enforcement locking down police radio traffic, stirring debate Scanner listeners in Minnesota said that while they understand the reasons for encryption, they are ...

Up until this week, the San Diego Police Department has broadcast police calls on an open channel. It’s been a resource for people who follow crime and monitor the police. But some say it has its ...

(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 ...

EVERETT — 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, the Everett man ran one of the popular Snohomish County Scanner ...