Yep, they are on LWIN and I hear them all the time but that may change after this new NXDN thing is operational.
Since they are on LWIN it kinda makes me wonder why they are spending the money to install their own system since with LWIN all they have to do is buy a few portables and one base and they can use them statewide. One possible scenario that ran through my head is this:
Rayne Dude: Hey, I don't want anyone being able to scan us. What can I switch to?
Radio Tech Dude: Uhh, lets see, wells how about Kenwood's NXDN, it's not as expensive as Motorola trunked systems and no one makes a scanner that can recieve it.
Rayne Dude: Ok, lets do that
Rayne City Council: Ok, we'll pay for it
Whistler: Just announced: we now make NXDN capable scanners
Rayne Dude: Awww @#$%^&*! we already signed the contracts and the system is not even built yet and they are already able to scan us.
That's probably not what really happened but it's just a funny scenario thay played out in my head. I remember back when 800 MHz trunked systems were first being installed there were so many scanner owners and law enforcement people as well who thought that trunking was invented solely for the purpose of making scanning difficult. I heard one deputy say, then they'll make a scanner that can receive it then we'll go to something else then they'll make a scanner that can receive that so then we'll go to something else. I had to laugh whenever I heard one of those conversations.