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Keep Police Radio Public Act Veto Rationale

12/22/2025

Presented above is Kathy Hochul's rationale for vetoing the Keep Police Radio Public Act last Friday.

My Take

I'll be drip-dropping more pontification on this veto's reasoning as time goes on. There's a lot more to unpack but for now here are my first-take notes:

1. Concerns for privacy that she cites have not been an issue for decades upon decades. Remember, open broadcasting is the default, not a "move to" as the reasoning suggests. Yes of course open communications are exploitable but in those decades upon decades, mitigations to eliminate them in important matters have been successful.

2. At least the reasoning acknowledges the futility of distinguishing between the NY Times and BuffScan or your favorite scanner news coverage Facebook Group. In my opinion the attempt by selfish media sector groups to celebrate their sanctimonies exceptionalism instead of making this fight for the public, created a fatal flaw. Thanks for that MSM.

3. And finally, having this distraction in play removed, it re-asserts the actual mission. The unambiguous goal now is to firmly replace police scanning with something else.

So let's get busy.

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  By BuffScan for BuffScan.

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