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 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 ...

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

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Scanner addicts and others woke up Tuesday to silence but it wasn’t a sweet sound for many of them. The ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Honolulu City Council is trying to pressure the Honolulu Police Department to release more information about emergencies and criminal activity. Television executives ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A bill that would provide media access to Honolulu police scanners is heading back to the Committee for further discussion. The Honolulu City Council passed the bill to its second ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis will cease public broadcasts of its police radio communications starting in May and shift to online dashboards for the public to track emergency incident responses. In a news ...

Pittsburgh police in Zone 4 are increasing patrols at religious institutions following disturbing messages broadcast over scanners the past several days.