Yellow Scene Magazine: When the Boulder Police Department (BPD) quietly completed its switch to fully encrypted radio channels in late October, the announcement landed with a familiar thud among Colorado journalists and transparency advocates. To the department, the change was a long-planned technical upgrade meant to prevent outages during critical incidents. However, to many in the press, it represented yet another barrier between the public and real-time information about police activity.

Public Information Officer Dionne Waugh told Yellow Scene Magazine that the department “has been working on this transition for over two years.”

The shift has reignited concerns from reporters and open-records advocates who rely on police radio traffic to understand breaking events as they unfold.

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