Safety vs. transparency.

Emergency responders want to block the public from hearing their movements over radio transmissions because they fear that a psycho with an automatic weapon will hear about a fire or crime or traffic accident, grab their weapon, go there, and start shooting at the responders on the scene.

Or that a large, unruly crowd will gather and interfere with their management of an incident.

Those are reasonable fears, particularly in this age of mass shootings and the growing conflict between the public and law enforcement.

Our emergency responders — police, firefighters, EMS workers — have a right to be safe.

But the people also have rights. The right to know what’s going on in their communities. The right to act for their........

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