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Palo Alto and Mountain View have reached a settlement with Joel Alejo, who was attacked and repeatedly bitten by a police dog while he was sleeping in a shed in Mountain View last year, court records show.
Residents outraged over police dog attack and they want encryption to end Residents outraged over police dog attack and they want encryption to end Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Altans expressed outrage over the attack of a sleeping man by a Palo Alto police dog and they called upon City Council to end the encryption of police radio transmissions. “You’re still not being transparent. They’re still not being held accountable,” said resident Raven Malone, who ran unsuccessfully for council last fall. “We’ve seen police officers even be promoted after using the ‘n-word.’ I don’t...
As a result, dispatchers had to do extra work to establish "talk groups," Nickel said. Any agency that switches away from encryption while all of its neighbors encrypt would face the same challenge. Furthermore, when an agency with encrypted radios communicates with one with nonencrypted radios, the communication defaults to nonencrypted communication and, as a result, the agencies fall out of compliance with the DOJ order when personal information is transmitted, Nickel said. While Nickel said that the choice of whether or not to encrypt is ultimately up to each individual agency, his agency...