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Did everyone see this August 4 tweet from OCFA Chief Fennessy? Chief Brian Fennessy @OCFAChief Questions remain re OCFA encrypted radios. The OC Fire Chiefs Assoc. is working with the Sheriff’s Dept to assess the feasibility to remove encryption from fire service radios without an unnecessary...

A tweet posted by the PIO just an hour before the chief's tweet implies they are still trying to remove the encryption:

How's this?

Yes, keep the pressure on for removing alll encryption. I can't help but believe that the Sheriffs Dept who runs CCCS feels this is very low priority for them and would love to never remove the encryption.

Thank you for your effort. Because of PulsePoint, the dispatch talkgroups are less important than the fire tacticals. Also, keep working on removing encryption from all the fire talkgroups because streaming through Broadcastify does not help people with scanners that frequently lock onto a...

I heard that MetroNet dropped the machine voice dispatch feature because there was a large fee that they were going to have to pay to keep it working.

I was wondering the same thing

Yeah, I saw something similar on the OCFA website. Looks like it would be $25 per incident. Not very encouraging.

Understood. However, it doesn't need to be done every day. Just regularly enough that the recordings would still be available and OCFA can figure out that the requests will continue until the encryption is turned off.

Hey, Nathan, what is OnScene TV's position on this? I would think it would seriously impact their business in Orange County.

Here's a suggestion. Everyone submit a public records request to OCFA for an audio copy of the radio traffic for all incidents of a significant nature. When they complain that they are being overwhelmed by these requests, tell them to simply turn off the encryption and the public will listen...