Ada county encryption.

[MountainMoose]

So I'm curious as to who was in charge of fully encrypting ALL ada county SO/FD/EMS etc? Who's the actual one who made this decision? OK So you encrypt SO or PD but Fire? Freaking ridiculous. Way to ruin a hobby that some loved. Id love to know who to give a piece of my thoughts to.

 

[n3obl]

Well its not a hobby to them and I doubt they will care. Seems easier to just encrypt all public safety vs just police channels. Also by encrypting the channels it also prevents it from being streamed.

 

[MountainMoose]

Transparency out the window.
Phones and apps killed the hobby as well.

 

[MountainMoose]

So i take it no one knows who would be behind the decision to fully encrypt?

 

[MountainMoose]

Is anyone able to confirm yet what was actually encrypted. Was it just Ada County sheriff?

 

[thewenk]

The notices that I read did not say Fire/EMS would be encrypted, just Law Enforcement. I think All of the LE in the Boise area and on the ICAWIN System will be totally encrypted. The news media object most to it as they have to wait for official statements from the LE about incidents. The media does get inputs from citizens.

All of the Law Enforcement on the EICAWIN System in the Eastern part of the state has been fully encrypted for several years.

Since it is easy to implement encryption on the digital systems, we are going to see more and more of it.

 

[MountainMoose]

The notices that I read did not say Fire/EMS would be encrypted, just Law Enforcement. I think All of the LE in the Boise area and on the ICAWIN System will be totally encrypted. The news media object most to it as they have to wait for official statements from the LE about incidents. The media does get inputs from citizens.

All of the Law Enforcement on the EICAWIN System in the Eastern part of the state has been fully encrypted for several years.

Since it is easy to implement encryption on the digital systems, we are going to see more and more of it.

Well, there were several different articles. Most giving info that was off or erroneous as per usual. But yes sone said ONLY LE. Not 100% sure that some fire or other stuff didn't get hit as well.

 

[Frank00213]

Well this sucks I wish all pd dispatch channels could stay in the clear they have encrypted channels already.

 

[Frank00213]

How do we have this issue brought up with our representatives at the capital? Who do we petition to have all dispatch channels in the clear and only critical channels secured? The equipment is paid for by us taxpayers we should be able to hear regular channels obviously not channels that need to be secure but fire,ems and police dispatch channels should be okay to listen to.

 

[n3obl]

How do we have this issue brought up with our representatives at the capital? Who do we petition to have all dispatch channels in the clear and only critical channels secured? The equipment is paid for by us taxpayers we should be able to hear regular channels obviously not channels that need to be secure but fire,ems and police dispatch channels should be okay to listen to.

Dream. They dont care its paid by tax payer dollars. Just get used to listening to other stuff or nothing at all.

 

[MountainMoose]

How do we have this issue brought up with our representatives at the capital? Who do we petition to have all dispatch channels in the clear and only critical channels secured? The equipment is paid for by us taxpayers we should be able to hear regular channels obviously not channels that need to be secure but fire,ems and police dispatch channels should be okay to listen to.

I had thought of that. We as taxpayers pay for this, so why are we being kept out? We pay all the salaries of the officials and all the equipment etc. So essentially we are being kept from something that is rightfully ours. NOTHING on fire needs to be encrypted! PD ok sure, any tac or Incident talk groups etc. Which were already here locally. So this "power move" by whomever was lame. So who's our contact to rightfully voice our concerns. We as citizens have the right to be in the know.

 

[MountainMoose]

Dream. They dont care its paid by tax payer dollars. Just get used to listening to other stuff or nothing at all.

That's a lame excuse. As taxpayers and citizens of the county we have the right to speak to someone. As far as I'm concerned. Whatever officials are behind it don't deserve to be voted for again if they don't believe in or trust thier local community

 

[MountainMoose]

Well this sucks I wish all pd dispatch channels could stay in the clear they have encrypted channels already.

Yea it was ridiculous and just a power move by someone

 

[MountainMoose]

How do we have this issue brought up with our representatives at the capital? Who do we petition to have all dispatch channels in the clear and only critical channels secured? The equipment is paid for by us taxpayers we should be able to hear regular channels obviously not channels that need to be secure but fire,ems and police dispatch channels should be okay to listen to.

Id probably say we start with the sheriff's office since they are county

 

[n0xvz]

Id probably say we start with the sheriff's office since they are county

Why wouldn't you start with the the Ada County Board of Commissioners since they are the chief policy-making and administrative branch of county government? Ultimately, they are the ones that approved it.

 

[MountainMoose]

Why wouldn't you start with the the Ada County Board of Commissioners since they are the chief policy-making and administrative branch of county government? Ultimately, they are the ones that approved it.

Well I had asked that and apparently nobody knew

 

[n0xvz]

Well I had asked that and apparently nobody knew

And this is why you're encrypted...

 

[Frank00213]

Who would we talk to at the Ada county board of commissioners to find out how many signatures we would need like on a change.org type of thing in order to get that changeed back? Would you guys know?

 

[n0xvz]

Here's a good start.

 

[Frank00213]

Got it, thank you.