Sound Off: Monitoring the News
The Stamford Advocate is looking for help.
The lower Fairfield County daily newspaper has been without a Stamford police scanner since October when the department went to a digitally encrypted 800 mhz system.
A similar system has been in place in Wilton and Westport for some time and the newspaper has been at the mercy of their judgment as to what should be released to the fourth estate to be made public.
While the Advocate still has access to the Stamford police blotter, without a scanner, they say they are flying blind.
The plea comes on the heels of last month’s Stamford chimpanzee attack that the Advocate learned about through state police communications.
Have any other media outlets dealt with this issue? If so, how was it handled? Even if not, what advice would you offer?
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