LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/CopWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopWatch</span></a> advocates have condemned <a href="https://c.im/tags/Oakland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oakland</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Police</span></a> efforts to begin hiding their <a href="https://c.im/tags/radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radio</span></a> communications with new <a href="https://c.im/tags/Encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Encryption</span></a> techniques which ends decades of public <a href="https://c.im/tags/transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transparency</span></a>.</p><p>Well, the public access to cop communications continues, but now only because of <a href="https://c.im/tags/OPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OPD</span></a> technical trouble “working with a vendor” ...</p><p>Dozens of <a href="https://c.im/tags/LEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LEO</span></a> agencies had timed their scanners to go dark to the public throughout the <a href="https://c.im/tags/EastBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EastBay</span></a> — the move by many scandal plagued regional <a href="https://c.im/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LawEnforcement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawEnforcement</span></a> agencies has been widely condemned by <a href="https://c.im/tags/OpenGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenGov</span></a> advocate groups. </p><p><a href="https://www.EastBayExpress.com/2025/09/04/snafu-keeps-oakland-police-radio-traffic-public-as-east-bay-wide-shutdowns-loom/?share=f2scrnrm0oaus9aeoba9" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">EastBayExpress.com/2025/09/04/</span><span class="invisible">snafu-keeps-oakland-police-radio-traffic-public-as-east-bay-wide-shutdowns-loom/?share=f2scrnrm0oaus9aeoba9</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SharedStory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PaywallLift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaywallLift</span></a></p>