Is police information ripe for abuse?
Uploaded: Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 6:48 am 4 Time to read: about 2 minutes Palo Alto police Officer Marianna Villaescusa and dispatcher Lindsay Moore discuss the day's plans in the dispatch room in 2012. Embarcadero Media file photo. This article is part of a larger story on police agencies encrypting radio dispatch communications, which can be found here. --- While the FBI and California Department of Justice (DOJ) say private information might fall into the wrong hands when the public and the press listen to radio transmissions on scanners, there have been hundreds of instances of police abuses ...