The Tacoma Police Department has decided against using ShotSpotter gunshot detection after a three-year trial funded by an ...

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

Gov. Kathy Hochul should sign a bill on her desk that would preserve access to police radio transmissions for media organizations and first responders. For the media, such access is necessary to ...

Napa County has joined more than 100 California law enforcement agencies in encrypting police radio communications, ending decades of public access and sparking renewed debate over transparency ...

Police Commissioner Richard Chambers says the publication of an audio recording of police radio communications from the night ...

BERKELEY — Police scanners in Berkeley could soon go silent, but transparency concerns remain among some current and former city leaders who say they’d like to first see more discussion on the issue ...

Insistence on transparency in law enforcement has nothing to do with whether one likes or dislikes police officers. It comes down to trust, and this is essential for a free society and the effective, ...

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 ...

In recent days, local residents and advocates have begun to speak out about a push by Berkeley police to make all their radio transmissions private. Some said they listen to online scanner apps when ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul should sign bill requiring law enforcement to make encrypted communications available to news media and ...