Goodbye, scanner. Austin police, fire, EMS will stop making messages available to public The Austin Police Department first proposed encrypting its radios in its 2020 social justice protest ...

Another Android app with a high user rating is Scanner 911, developed by XYWARE.Live audio from thousands of police, fire, EMS, and aviation frequencies across the country is available.

That makes mobile police scanners, like smartphone police scanner apps or handheld scanners used while you’re on the go, illegal. And in many states, it’s also illegal to install a scanner in ...

EVERETT — Police radio communications across Snohomish County will be encrypted starting May 6, cutting off public access to real-time scanner traffic, officials announced Tuesday at a press ...

Several officers and medics responded to a crash near The Greene. Kettering Police and EMS were dispatched around 6:26 a.m.

In encrypting scanners, the Minneapolis Police Department says it will fill the gap in transparency with an online incidents dashboard. ... For example, Hennepin County EMS encrypted in January.

York County is the latest jurisdiction to make the police dispatches private. Many scanner listeners have wondered ... The public can see fire and EMS calls on York County 911's live incident ...