Police scanners are going silent thanks to a new rule requiring the communication system be encrypted. The mandate from the federal government means the frequently-used method by media to track down ...

It doesn’t cost much to break onto a police-scanner channel and curse, spew hateful language or threaten an elected leader as ...

Decatur police are moving to encrypted radios to protect sensitive information.

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 ...

Police Department will move to encrypted digital dispatch and radio communications to protect officers, victims and ongoing ...

We verify if it's legal to decrypt encrypted police scanner traffic, after a local department announced it's moving to ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — It could be considered an honest mistake when someone who is listening to police scanner traffic posts some of that information on social media. After all, the information is ...

The Emergency Communications Center is pictured on Nov. 3, 2023, on the second floor of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. The days of police business being aired over a “scanner” are nearing ...