Berkeley to encrypt police scanners starting Thursday

Encrypting scanners will align the Berkeley Police Department with all other law enforcement offices in the East Bay which ...
Hoodline

Berkeley City Council Votes to Encrypt Police Radio Communications Amid Transparency Concerns

Berkeley City Council voted 8-1 for encrypted police radio, citing privacy protection, raising transparency concerns.
Phoenix New Times

Loathe SB 1070? Then Sign Up For Phoenix Copwatch This Weekend.

Thanks (or no thanks) to the SB 1070 hullabaloo, we’re thinking this weekend’s Phoenix Copwatch Member Training Meeting may be packed to the gunwales. The grassroots Phoenix Copwatch, formed in 1988, ...
The Daily Californian

Inside UC Berkeley’s Community Based Accountability Copwatch DeCal

Community Based Accountability, a DeCal taught by “grassroots volunteer group” Berkeley Copwatch, has welcomed the UC Berkeley community for 20 years.Amidst increased ICE activity nationwide, the ...