When the 2020 Walbridge wildfire threatened John Clarke Mills’ off-grid home in Sonoma County, Calif., he was frustrated by a lack of accessible information. While government agencies seemed to have ...

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 ...

State Senate Bill 1000, which would require law enforcement agencies to find alternatives to encrypted radios, was advanced by the Senate Public Safety Committee on April 19, 2022. Embarcadero Media ...

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, ...

Update: On June 21, 2021, Colorado’s state legislature passed a bill requiring police agencies that fully encrypt radio communications to enact media access policies in consultation with the media.

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 ...

The Oakland Police Department's plans to begin encrypting its radio transmissions is drawing public scrutiny due to concerns over transparency in the department. Police radios allow for communication ...

The silence is deafening. And it’s going to get louder. The NYPD began encrypting its radio transmissions on Staten Island in February. That means that members of the media and the public no longer ...