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, ...

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

(TNS) — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Last month, Manchester, N.H., police transmissions accessible to anyone with a radio scanner became unintelligible to those outside the department. After upgrading its ...

DENVER (CBS4)- Lawmakers are debating secrecy when it comes to police radio scanners. Some police, fire and sheriff's departments are allowed to hide their radio communications by encrypting them.

Longmont police elected to keep its scanner traffic encrypted after the completion of a pilot program. A report from six months of data collected during the pilot was released in May, with police ...

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 ...

Police activity in Baltimore will soon be concealed by the shroud of an encrypted radio system. Thisnew equipment will allowofficers to work without worrying about whether a crafty criminal is ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Colorado journalists on the crime beat are increasingly in the dark. More than two-dozen law enforcement agencies statewide have ...

The Longmont Police Department’s pilot scanner encryption program officially ended Thursday, but the department said it will keep its radio traffic encrypted while it analyzes data from the test ...