Police scanner listeners in Horry County have noticed less radio traffic in recent days after the Horry County Police Department encrypted its radios last week.

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 ...

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 ...

They urged the chief to reconsider full encryption, citing the Palo Alto Police Department as an example. After abruptly encrypting all radio feeds in January 2021, Palo Alto police reversed course ...

BRAZOS COUNTY (KBTX) - Brazos County law enforcement agencies said Tuesday they are willing to meet with KBTX to discuss their abrupt announcement of a decision to fully encrypt police radio ...

BERKELEY, Calif. - The Berkeley City Council voted 8-1 last week to restrict public access to the police department's real-time dispatch radio traffic. The move to encrypt radio communications was ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- In a press release sent out on Thursday, the St. Joseph Police Department announced it would transition to encrypted radio traffic early in July. This change is for ...

(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 ...

SALEM — The Salem Police Department has added digital encryption to its radio system to improve security of police officers and limit unauthorized access to personal, identifiable information. The ...

The Berkeley Police Department is seeking to encrypt all its radio communications, per a formal request from the department to the Berkeley City Council that will be discussed at its upcoming meeting ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Jeffrey Bessen, managing editor of Herald Community Media, and the Press Club of Long Island board, of which he is a member. Gov. Kathy Hochul's Dec. 19 veto of ...

The Boston Police Department’s decision to digitally encrypt its radio transmissions might not seem like something worth our attention in the Berkshires. Nonetheless, when the head of the New England ...