State Sen. Josh Becker, D-San Mateo, speaks during a press conference at Barron Park Elementary School in Palo Alto on March 2, 2021. Photo by Magali Gauthier. After falling just short in the final ...

Under Mayor Adams, who once declared that there was nothing more important to him than transparency, the NYPD is continuing on its quest to encrypt all radio communications, shutting out the public’s ...

Napa County has joined more than 100 California law enforcement agencies in encrypting police radio communications, ending decades of public access and sparking renewed debate over transparency ...

For more than 25 years, a technology used for critical data and voice radio communications around the world has been shrouded in secrecy to prevent anyone from closely scrutinizing its security ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Some police and fire departments are bucking a trend to conceal dispatch communications from the public, acknowledging that radio encryption has the potential to backfire and ...

Local news reporters pleaded with police officials on Monday to reconsider a planned upgrade to the department’s radio system that would largely eliminate public access — a shift taken in the name of ...

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

The Berkeley City Council approved a proposal to encrypt the Berkeley Police Department’s radio communications after the item ...

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 ...