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There are really four key points that are all to some degree opposing issues. Issue 1: Protection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) including DL, DOB, Wants/Warrants, home address, license plate, etc. Issue 2: From law enforcement's perspective, there are concerns with both...

You're spot on. In addition, DOJ isn't just cracking down on protecting PII via radio but in every way. CLETS data used to flow just like all other data over a county's or city's network. Now, it has to be fully separate either via VLAN or firewalled off from all other data so there is no (or...

"On October 12, 2020, the California Department of Justice (DOJ) issued Information Bulletin #20-09-CJIS, which set forth legal mandates and guidelines regarding the “Confidentiality of Information from the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS).” The guidelines require law...

Hardly. I pointed out that anyone, regardless of honest citizen to the worst, hardened criminal, now has access to on-line scanner feeds.

As much as I hate to say it from the standpoint of a scanner and radio enthusiast for many decades, in the next 5 to 10 years, I think you'll see most law enforcement agencies go encrypted, either fully or partially. I think the best you'll be able to hope for is that laws are enacted that give...

While I poor rural departments have have challenges, middle size to large metropolitan areas don't. Most use modern, expensive radio gear with multi-key capability so that department X has a different key than department Y but with multi-key, they can still share and change the key periodically...

First, you are incorrect. PII is most definitely protected data in California and California is constantly adding more and more privacy laws. Hence, the DOJ directives in order to comply with California law. Second, and to respond to your exact quote, encryption has been around for 3,000+...

I wouldn't go that far. California has had bills restricting access to PII and PHI for many years that has nothing to do with law enforcement specifically. However, Law Enforcement was one of the last groups not to limit access to such as the law demands, in the form of over the air radio...

What are the rules surrounding duplicate feeds coming into a specific area? One feed that's been around since ~2009 provides the Butte County Sheriff's Office (which now dispatches for Paradise Police as well), CalFire and Search & Rescue. The new feed that just shows up includes the initial...

Interop Having been in LE and EMS based emergency services for 20+ years, I tend to agree with most of the comments that "interop" in the way the media and the politicians mean it not only isn't needed but is impractical in real life operations, disasters or otherwise. It is true that there is...

One other thing to consider is that a number of fire agencies are trying to reduce overall radio traffic on impacted channels by cutting two-tone times in half. In our county, Cal-Fire has cut the normal 1 second by 3 second two-tone series to something like .5 seconds by 1.5 seconds. I've...