Tag: Scanner

Stark County Common Pleas Court getting new fingerprint scanner

Stark County Common Pleas Court is getting a device to capture fingerprints for automated submission to the state’s criminal records database thanks to a National Criminal History Improvement Program grant. The federal grant will buy 77 new LiveScan fingerprint scanners for courts across Ohio to make the state’s criminal records repository more accurate and complete, […]

Owensboro police encrypting scanner traffic; could Evansville follow suit?

EVANSVILLE — After a man allegedly ambushed and killed Evansville firefighter Robert F. Doerr II in 2019, investigators said he monitored police radio chatter using a smartphone app while he made his getaway. Such a tactic illustrates part of the rationale that law enforcement agencies around the country have used to cloak their radio transmissions […]