A Bellevue, Wash.-based startup is moving closer to commercialization of a handheld scanning device that it says could change ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Glendale Police Department plans to ...

Every time she left her house over the past three years, Christina Smith would check Facebook to see if it’s safe where she’s headed. While she was out, she’d check Facebook to see if there’s any ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Should police radio broadcasts be encrypted or should they stay public? There's a debate between the NYPD, New York City Council, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams on this ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City Council is holding a hearing Monday on the NYPD's planned upgrade to its decades-old radio system. No one disputes the need for an upgrade. What makes this ...

A high-ranking Senate Democrat wants to keep police band radio signals available to the press and public. Sen. Michael Gianaris, D-Astoria and Senate deputy majority leader, has introduced the Keep ...

Standing up for your rights is dangerous, and now that cities around the U.S. are implementing early curfews with violent enforcement, it’s useful to arm yourself with as much knowledge as you can. At ...

Speaker A: But without a police scanner, it’s possible no one would have heard Garner’s last words. Speaker A: One of Todd’s colleagues broke the story after staying up late listening to his scanner.

A coalition of Chicago news organizations has written a letter to the public it serves raising considerable concern about the suppression of an important tool with which we inform the public: The ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A bill that would give New York journalists access to police radio frequencies is officially sitting on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk after passing through the New York State Congress ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — In neighborhoods across Chicago, ...