The Wildly Popular Police Scanner Goes Silent for Many American cities are encrypting their emergency radio communications over concerns about safety and privacy.

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 scanners are a familiar sound in newsrooms, but come Friday, Greenville police dispatch will go silent on scanners across the area as the agency transitions to a fully encrypted radio system.

Encrypted radio transmissions will sound distorted to regular listeners, and police communication will only be heard by listeners with the proper encryption key.

The question of whether police radio transmissions should be encrypted has strong opinions on both sides. My father was Chief on the Prior Lake Fire Department for many years, so I know how importa… ...

We’re letting the public know that losing access to Oakland's police scanner makes it harder to report on shootings, chases, ...

Local governments are starting to encrypt routine police radio transmissions, altering a longstanding tradition of journalist access to these communications. Some cities are contemplating media ...

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 ...