The California Highway Patrol keeps most of its radio transmissions public while protecting private data such a suspect's driver's license number. SB 1000 would require other law enforcement agencies ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. When Hurricane Helene took out power and cellular communication ...

When did you last use radio technology? If you’re straining to remember when you last turned on the AM/FM radio broadcast receiver in your car, you’ve probably gone too far back. Although it might not ...

NEW YORK -- Mayor Eric Adams is defending the NYPD's decision to spend $390 million on a new radio system that will encrypt officers' radio communications, meaning the public won't be able to listen ...

The Internet Archive is aiming to build up a new library of old content. It's expanding beyond Flash games and animations, movies, books and (of course) snapshots of websites with the Digital Library ...

The days of Chicago reporters and news photographers relying on a live, crackling police scanner to chase news and tell the public what officers are doing in real time are quickly coming to an end.

Police radio communications have been public ever since the Detroit Police Department began broadcasting one-way transmissions to mobile officers on station KOP in the 1920s. In fact, in those early ...

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Underground tunnels and wireless communications have generally been mutually exclusive entities, much to the chagrin of emergency responders (or anyone who has had their favorite tunes interrupted by ...