STOCKBRIDGE — It wasn’t too long ago when Thomas Loree reached out to the Stockbridge chief of police to discuss his concerns about transparency within the reestablished police department’s communication systems.
“I asked him to open his dispatch channels to the public for monitoring,” Loree said of the encounter. “Right now, everything — Fire, EMS, Police — public safety related is highly encrypted from public monitoring on scanners.”
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