- Many Utah law enforcement agencies are encrypting their radio channels.
- This move limits public and press access to real-time communications.
SALT LAKE CITY — A five-year project to upgrade Utah’s public safety radio system is nearing the finish line.
According to the Utah Communications Authority, public safety agencies in Juab, Utah and Salt Lake counties are the last to cut over to the new system — called P-25 — and are on track to do so before the end of the year. The old system had been in place since the 2002 Olympics.
“Just like crime and crashes and incidents don’t happen within county or city boundaries, this really allows for our agencies to communicate with every other agency throughout the state and to gray out some of those borders,” said Tina Mathieu, executive director of the Utah Communications Authority…