Police scanners have often been the first sign of news that is breaking. But these days, police scanners are going silent.

For decades, police radio communications were one of the few ways the public and the press could independently understand ...

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 ...

BERKELEY — Full public access to police scanner activity in the East Bay will soon be unavailable after Berkeley councilmembers gave the city’s police department permission to encrypt radio ...

EVANSVILLE — After a man allegedly ambushed and killed Evansville firefighter Robert F. Doerr II in 2019, investigators said he monitored police radio chatter using a smartphone app while he made his ...

The Emergency Communications Center is pictured on Nov. 3, 2023, on the second floor of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. The days of police business being aired over a “scanner” are nearing ...

The Longview Police Department is making a change to protect their radio channels.

BERKELEY — Police scanners in Berkeley will officially be encrypted starting Thursday morning, officials said Wednesday. Scanner encryption, the process of shifting officers and dispatch communication ...