Watchdog groups, journalists, advocates for open records, and everyday folks who had regularly tuned in to scanner traffic ...

Wichita police shot a man twice Friday morning as he allegedly tried to flee in a car with a woman he had been assaulting, police spokesperson Rick Pena said. EMS took the man to the hospital 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 ...

Scanner chatter goes quiet as police agencies turn to encryption. 0 Comments Share this. ... more than 6,000 people were tuned in at one online site to Anne Arundel County Fire and EMS channels.

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 ...

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.

BALTIMORE — An outage in the city’s computer-aided emergency dispatch system snarled some communications between Baltimore ...