Insistence on transparency in law enforcement has nothing to do with whether one likes or dislikes police officers. It comes ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul should sign a bill on her desk that would preserve access to police radio transmissions for media ...

Berkeley Police Department encrypted all radio channels Thursday at 5 a.m., citing safety issues. On Wednesday at its regular ...

The Berkeley Police Department moved its radio communications to encrypted channels on Thursday a little over a week after a controversial vote by the Berkeley City Council to allow the change.

Berkeley City Council voted 8-1 for encrypted police radio, citing privacy protection, raising transparency concerns.

Law enforcement agencies across Contra Costa County began shielding their radio chatter from the public this week, ending decades of transparency and closing shut a key window into crime across the ...

Berkeley has a proven track record as a champion for transparency. Will this City Council vote for government secrecy instead?

DUBLIN — The cause of a recent technical glitch that kept dozens of law enforcement agencies across the East Bay from hiding their radio communications from the public remains a mystery, authorities ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul should sign bill requiring law enforcement to make encrypted communications available to news media and ...