Scanner addicts and others woke up Tuesday to silence but it wasn’t a sweet sound for many of them. The silence was due to ...

If you have a police scanner in Longview, you may have noticed it has grown quiet. That’s because Longview Police have ...

Law enforcement authorities cite officer safety as a main reason behind a recent decision to encrypt their radio frequencies.

The question of whether police radio transmissions should be encrypted has strong opinions on both sides. My father was Chief on the Prior Lake Fire Department for many years, so I know how ...

The Longview Police Department says it is encrypting radio communications "to enhance public safety, protect sensitive ...

(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 ...

Police departments across the state made the switch to encryption after the state Department ... a person’s driver’s license over the radio. Newly appointed Police Chief Andrew Binder told ...

Both the Rochester Police Department and Olmsted County Sheriff's Office will switch to encrypted channels for radio communications beginning Jan. 27. (Anthony Soufflé/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Longview Police Department posted on their Facebook page the change that they have adopted new technology and are now ...

anyone in Olmsted County can listen to radio communications using police scanners and apps. Critics of the encryption within the community are questioning whether the department has considered ...