“I understand the desire to prevent members of the public from using real-time police scanner information to commit crimes or to evade law enforcement,” state Rep. LaShawn Ford said. “Blocking accredited media from real time access is counter to governmental transparency and does not lend itself to the original stated purpose of the encryption program.”
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
The accredited media has no credibility, so there is no need for them to have access to any information an average citizen can’t access.