Police scanners have often been the first sign of news that is breaking. But these days, police scanners are going silent.

A mandate from the federal government means police scanners will be encrypted by October. That goal is police safety, ...

EVANSVILLE — After a man allegedly ambushed and killed Evansville firefighter Robert F. Doerr II in 2019, investigators said he monitored police radio chatter using a smartphone app while he made his ...

BERKELEY — 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 ...

All police departments in Jasper County have encrypted their dispatch calls for officer safety, raising questions about ...

For decades, police radio communications were one of the few ways the public and the press could independently understand ...

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 ...

The Longview Police Department is making a change to protect their radio channels.