Thanks for the info, I will do that. I tried to google it and all I came up with was an article from Aug 2017 where they said they were thinking about switching and why. My mom has dementia and calls the police fairly often for crazy reasons, maybe I will ask an officer what he has heard next time they show up lol.
If I can confirm they are going to use encryption for everything I might just give my scanner to my dad. If they do it I hope they do it like Toledo did. They use it, but only for certain TAC channels and stuff like that.