Honolulu’s interim police chief is opposing allowing the media to have access to police radio scanners, despite sounding open ...

Watchdog groups, journalists, advocates for open records, and everyday folks who had regularly tuned in to scanner traffic ...

It is legal to own a police scanner radio; on that, pretty much everyone agrees. Where things get sticky is when you take it out of your home. The problem, police and legal experts say, ...

Law enforcement and journalists share the same goals during a crisis — protect lives, preserve safety, maintain public trust.

One iPhone app, Scanner 911, offers on its website the chance to "listen in while police, fire and EMS crews work day & night." Apple's iTunes' store advertises several similar apps.

City Council on Thursday will consider proposed legislation to force the Honolulu Police Department to restore limited access to its radio communications to legitimate news media outlets. In 2022, ...

1) Scanner Radio. Scanner Radio is the most popular scanner application available on the Play Store. It allows you to listen to over 5,300 police scanners as well as weather stations and amateur ...

The NYPD has begun encrypting scanner radios that the press and the public have used to monitor basic police communications for more than 90 years. While the desire to put such communications on ...

Denver Police dispatcher Raymond Rowland works at his station on Thursday, November 1, 2018. Striking a balance. Police in Thornton, Arvada, Aurora, Lakewood, Westminster, Greeley and Fort Collins ...

It was police radio traffic on the scanner that drew freelance photojournalist Juan Ruiz to an Encanto home last year, where he captured video footage of an unarmed man being bitten by a police ...