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Snohomish County law enforcement to encrypt police airwaves
EVERETT — As a young child, Daron Johnson listened to his dad’s police scanners. In his teens, he bought his own.
For the last 15 years, the Everett man ran one of the popular Snohomish County Scanner feeds followed by more than 28,600 people on Facebook and X.
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But now, he’s signing off.
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Johnson is retiring in part because sometime this April, all law enforcement communications in Snohomish County will be encrypted. The change comes as emergency responders switch to a new P25 radio system, part of a 5-year, $71 million upgrade funded by a voter-approved sales tax in 2018.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/snohomish-county-law-enforcement-to-encrypt-police-airwaves/