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

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

More than a dozen law enforcement agencies — from Overland Park to Prairie Village — will be encrypting their primary channels so listeners can't hear what police and dispatchers are saying over the ...

American cities are encrypting their emergency radio communications over concerns about safety and privacy. By Ernesto Londoño Ernesto Londoño reported from Indianapolis, where he spent hours ...

(TNS) — A popular pastime among neighborhood watchdogs will soon go away in Rochester as local law enforcement agencies transition to encrypted radio communications. Both the Rochester Police ...

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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Public access to the scanner in St. Joseph will be removed as the city transitions to encrypted radio channels. According to Buchanan County Sheriff Bill Puett, the ...

After weeks of technical hiccups, nearly every law enforcement agency across the East Bay has now silenced their police radios. Before sunrise Wednesday, all but one Alameda County agency pulled ...

The multi-million dollar effort to remove public access to police radio communications across the East Bay has a new start date, roughly a month after similar plans were undone by a technology snafu.