The approval came despite more than two dozen public commenters who objected to the proposal as well as the process of how it was placed on the City Council's consent calendar, which is a list of ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul should sign a bill on her desk that would preserve access to police radio transmissions for media organizations and first responders. For the media, such access is necessary to ...

After voting by the City Council, Berkeley joined the rest of Alameda County in encrypting police radio communications last ...

The Berkeley Police Department moved its radio communications to encrypted channels on Thursday a little over a week after a ...

The Berkeley Police Department moved its radio communications to encrypted channels on Thursday a little over a week after a controversial vote by the Berkeley City Council to allow the change.

Napa County has joined more than 100 California law enforcement agencies in encrypting police radio communications, ending decades of public access and sparking renewed debate over transparency ...

"I have a male on the phone, saying, 'please send the police now, there's somebody breaking in,'" a dispatcher tells officers. She says the caller described the suspected intruders as two Hispanic men ...

Berkeley City Council voted 8-1 for encrypted police radio, citing privacy protection, raising transparency concerns.

A gunman took hostages in the UPMC Memorial Hospital ICU after learning of his girlfriend's death. West York Police Officer Andrew Duarte was killed by friendly fire during the police response. The ...