So began a media release sent out on Dec. 21, the Thursday before the Christmas holiday weekend. It’s safe to say that not a lot of people saw the initial release. And those who did might not have ...

Seeing the red lights flashing behind you while driving on the highway can immediately make your heart sink, so it's no surprise that a lot of drivers are using police scanners to detect nearby police ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Nov. 13, law enforcement radio and police scanners will go dark in Sioux Falls and Minnehaha County, as well as in Rapid City ...

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 ...

(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 — Police radio communications across Snohomish County will be encrypted starting May 6, cutting off public access to real-time scanner traffic, officials announced Tuesday at a press ...

American cities are encrypting their emergency radio communications over concerns about safety and privacy. By Ernesto Londoño Ernesto Londoño reported from Indianapolis, where he spent hours ...

Listening to Boston police radio transmissions over old-school scanner equipment will soon yield nothing but dead air. The Boston Police Department said Wednesday that it will convert its analog radio ...

The New York City Police Department has begun encrypting scanner radios that the press and public have used to monitor basic police communications for more than 90 years. While the desire to put such ...

OAKLAND — For decades, the public has had the ability to tune into radio channels where Oakland police and other Bay Area law enforcement agencies discuss emergency calls and coordinate responses. San ...

Law enforcement communications will be encrypted, keeping to-the-second updates about police whereabouts and breaking news situations private and off of public police scanners in a move law ...