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

Encrypting scanners will align the Berkeley Police Department with all other law enforcement offices in the East Bay which ...

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

Berkeley PD says encryption is necessary to protect officers, but critics argue the public would lose an important police ...

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

Opponents of full encryption shared concerns that the public will lose an important tool for monitoring police activity and ...

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.

The Berkeley Police Department moved its radio communications to encrypted channels on Thursday a little over a week after a ...

The City Council will consider reversing a policy banning encryption of police channels. Critics argue doing so would deprive the public of a tool to monitor crime and hold officers accountable.

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 communications.

The approval came despite more than two dozen public commenters who objected to the proposal as well as the process of how it was placed on the City Council's consent calendar, which is a list of ...