It is the latest agency to cut off access to radio communications in response to a California Department of Justice mandate requiring protection of personal information.
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department has encrypted its radio communications, blocking the public from listening to information about safety matters in real time.
“What this does, it inhibits transparency and accountability,” said Yusef Miller, of the North County Equity and Justice Coalition and the Racial Justice Coalition of San Diego. Police officers sometimes run background checks on their own, using their department-issued cellphones or computers in their patrol vehicles. Other times, they ask dispatchers to pull the information from the databases. That’s usually when personal information is broadcast over radio traffic.
For years, anyone with a scanner has had the ability to tune into the unencrypted radio communications, more so in recent years with the advent of web and cellphone scanner apps. Darwin Fishman, who has served on the city of San Diego’s Community Review Board on Police Practices, criticized the sheriff’s department’s record on transparency and said full encryption of radio communication is the “wrong way to move into this era.”
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