RE: ARLA/CLUSTER: Restrições à escuta em scanners no E.U.A.

[paulo protasio]

Caro colega Proença muito boa tarde. A Verdade Será que se tornará Realidade no bom da comunicação  quanto ao novo sistema de Comunicações que é ,o SIRESP Vem a Caminho na capital já esta em testes no Algarve em vila do bispo já se encontra duas antenas e os servidores para tal aqui no meu batente na comunicações dos bombeiros já se vai falando , desse tipo de comunicações que tanto andam por ai em  testes , os senhores que andam a comer os euros a todos nos balúrdios de euros gastos será  que vai funcionar , tenho um primo  na PSP na zona de  Lisboa diz que o velho-te tipo de comunicações e bom melhor será Verdade..
Abraço 73 Paulo CT5KAOAlgarve
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Subject: Fw: ARLA/CLUSTER: Restrições à escuta em scanners no E.U.A.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:36:40 +0000










O SIRESP vai a caminho, no problem...
 
73 de José Luís Proença - CT1GZB
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From: João Gonçalves 
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To: 'Resumo Noticioso Electrónico ARLA' 

Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 6:58 PM
Subject: ARLA/CLUSTER: Restrições à escuta em scanners no 
E.U.A.




Scanner hobbyists fear radio 
changes

Law enforcement efforts to get the upper hand on criminals 
has undercut public access to police broadcasts that bellow across radio 
scanners and the Internet.

With ongoing radio equipment and frequency 
upgrades in Brevard County, longtime scanner hobbyists fear public safety 
agencies eventually might move to encrypting even more transmissions than the 
usual undercover or tactical operation.

"I'm very fearful," said longtime 
scanner enthusiast Jonathon Whipple about the possibility of law enforcement 
agencies encrypting its transmissions.

"It means I'm in the dark. These 
are public airwaves. The scary thing is that they can just flip the switch and 
that would be it."

For now, residents still have the ability to tune in 
or go online to hear real-time broadcasts of traffic accidents, brush fire 
incidents or even an occasional dramatic rescue. Transmissions can be received 
on hand-held or portable scanners found at most electronics 
stores.

Already, some law enforcement agencies in surrounding counties 
and across the nation are shutting taxpaying residents out of listening in on 
what traditionally are publicly owned broadcasts, citing fears that criminals 
could also be eavesdropping. It is already illegal in Florida for a resident 
without an amateur radio license to have a police scanner mounted inside a 
vehicle.

During the past few months, Brevard County's publicly owned 
radio system has gotten a $3 million upgrade paid for by Sprint-Nextel to meet 
federal frequency rebanding requirements.

The project, set over two 
years, involved replacing equipment for 58 local departments -- from pubic 
school security to the county's 15 police agencies covering the 540,000 people 
living on the Space Coast.

The most recent reshifting of public safety 
radio frequencies took place just before Christmas. It was in response to a 
Federal Communications Commission order intended to relieve frequency 
interference issues, said Leslie Lewis of Brevard County Fire-Rescue, one of the 
leading coordinators overseeing the local rebanding project.

Other recent 
upgrades require digital scanners to monitor some law enforcement 
traffic. 

"(Encryption) is not really been part of the discussion at 
this point," Lewis said. "It's still in the investigative stage."

Palm 
Bay Police Chief William Berger said although his department uses encrypted 
frequencies for tactical operations, he does not foresee stripping away the 
public broadcasts typically heard over scanners. Berger said the value of such 
broadcasts allow the public to know what's happening during accidents or 
situations involving hurricanes or other natural disasters.

"I don't see 
it as necessary. You can't make an argument for that happening because it's 
important for that information to get out," Berger said. "But the refinements 
we're making to the system are just bringing us up to the norm."

Still 
residents such as Dennis Brands -- a longtime videographer whose livelihood 
depends on the transmissions he receives, says any direct move toward encryption 
would be devastating to the public's right to know what's happening in their own 
communities.

"We're supposed to be monitoring them to keep them honest, 
not to say that they are corrupt because I know that Palm Bay officers are very 
above-board in the dealings I've had with them," Brands said.

"But the 
more secretive law enforcement becomes in general, the more apt (police) are to 
not reveal that they've done something wrong."

 

Fonte: FloridaToday.com






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