San Diego County Sheriff’s Department - CALLS FOR SERVICE

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Brian
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San Diego County Sheriff’s Department - CALLS FOR SERVICE

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San Diego County Sheriff’s Department - CALLS FOR SERVICE

The calls for service listed reflect incidents currently being handled by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.

Calls for Service Information
https://callsforservice.sdsheriff.gov

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The San Diego County Sheriff's Department values our communication with the people we serve. We want to keep you informed.

We recognize concerns regarding the encryption of Sheriff's Department radio communications. This transition complies with a California Department of Justice mandate requiring law enforcement agencies to protect the privacy and identity of any person whose information is being broadcast over public transmissions. They include a person's name, date of birth, driver's license number, social security number, criminal history and other sensitive information verified through a state database.

We evaluated potential options and found a solution to continuously provide information to the public and our media partners while protecting confidential private information.

Our Calls for Service page is now available in the Open Data section of our public website.
You can also visit https://callsforservice.sdsheriff.gov

The Calls for Service page gives the public and the media awareness of law enforcement activity occurring in the communities we serve. It displays incidents being responded to and handled by the Sheriff's Department. The list of active and recently closed calls for service are updated every five minutes. Simply refresh your page to see the updates.

The page displays the event type, approximate location, community, Sheriff's Department service area and event number. You can filter or search any of the information currently displayed by typing keywords into the search function on the page. For example, you can filter calls for service by location.

Event classifications are based on information available to Emergency Services Dispatchers when the calls are received and do not necessarily reflect the final outcomes or dispositions of incidents.

We are committed to fostering positive working relationships with the media and coordinate the release of information to promote safety, transparency and safeguard the public trust.

News Release: Calls for Service Information
Post Date: 04/11/2022
https://www.sdsheriff.gov/Home/Componen ... ws/1077/16
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News Articles:

After encrypting radio channels, Sheriff’s Dept rolls out page showing what calls deputies are handling
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/ne ... es-respond

After encrypting radio channels, San Diego Sheriff debuts calls for service page. Police say the page provides transparency without disclosing personal information.
The department said the page allows transparency by providing information to the public without disclosing people's personal information.
One critic who previously relied on scanners to track law enforcement activity said the information on the page is limited, but it's better than no information at all.
The department rolled out the page in response to concerns over the encryption of radio communications between its dispatchers and deputies. The encryption cut off the public's long-standing access to real-time information that anyone with a scanner could listen to — more so in recent years with the advent of online and cellphone scanner apps.
However, not all agencies moved to encryption. Some, including the San Diego Police Department, continue to use unencrypted channels and switch to separate, encrypted channels to broadcast people's personal information.
The Sheriff's Department, like other law enforcement agencies, said encryption was the best option to comply with the directive. The department said switching between channels could be difficult, if not impossible, especially in incidents that unfold quickly.
Boyd, a former database programmer, launched an app, called CopWatcher (https://app.copwatcher.app), that includes a variety of features, including the ability for users to flag law enforcement activity, in part to allow others to respond and capture video.
Now, with the rollout of the Sheriff's Department online page, Boyd added a feature to the CopWatcher app to allow users to sign up for email or text message alerts about incidents that appear on the page.
https://www.police1.com/communications/ ... whBR6OHtx/
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