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We are building a tool to help newsrooms listen to emergency scanners
The Public Safety Scanner Tool, or PSST, sends automated alerts of urgent scanner traffic in real time and will be free for newsrooms Open Vallejo, our nonprofit newsroom in the Bay Area, has kept a police scanner running for most of its six years, as many local newsrooms do across the country. It is how reporters catch a shooting before the press release goes out, a chemical leak before it…
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