Berkeley PD says encryption is necessary to protect officers, but critics argue the public would lose an important police ...

Opponents of full encryption shared concerns that the public will lose an important tool for monitoring police activity and ...

The Berkeley City Council voted 8-1 this week to restrict public access to the police department's real-time dispatch radio traffic.

In recent days, local residents and advocates have begun to speak out about a push by Berkeley police to make all their radio ...

Boulder’s police radios will no longer be available for curious minds and ears starting no later than Tuesday.

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 communications.

After weeks of technical hiccups, nearly every law enforcement agency across the East Bay has now silenced their police radios. Before sunrise Wednesday, all but one Alameda County agency pulled ...

The City Council will consider reversing a policy banning encryption of police channels. Critics argue doing so would deprive the public of a tool to monitor crime and hold officers accountable.

The authority has been working for years to pull public access to officers’ communications, despite deep concerns by police accountability organizations and First Amendment advocates.

The Berkeley City Council approved a proposal to encrypt the Berkeley Police Department’s radio communications after the item ...

Berkeley has a proven track record as a champion for transparency. Will this City Council vote for government secrecy instead ...

My first big-time gig at the Staten Island Advance back in the 1990s was as an overnight cop and fire reporter. The major part of my job was listening to police dispatch transmissions over a radio ...