OAKLAND — For decades, the public has had the ability to tune into radio channels where Oakland police and other Bay Area law enforcement agencies discuss emergency calls and coordinate responses. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

For years, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher advised his deputies to monitor the social media pages of devout police radio listeners for details on unfolding Minneapolis incidents in case a fleeing ...

OAKLAND — The Oakland Police Department’s plan to shield its officers’ conversations from the public hit an unexpected snag this week. The agency on Thursday said “unexpected technical issues” delayed ...

Late last month, the citizens of Boulder lost a crucial tool of transparency when the Boulder Police Department began encrypting its communications. While most people are probably most familiar with ...

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