Can I still listen to police scanners in Massachusetts?
No. Police radio is encrypted, based on 1 confirmed city. Other places in Massachusetts may differ, so check your county or city below.
Based on 1 confirmed city (Boston). One place sets this colour; others in Massachusetts may differ.
Cities we've confirmed
- Boston Police encrypted
Other cities in Massachusetts
Not yet confirmed by the agency. Each page shows what the FCC licenses say: whether local police and fire radio is analog or digital, and which scanner hears it.
- Agawam Town
- Amesbury
- Amherst Town
- Attleboro
- Ayer
- Barnstable Town
- Belchertown
- Beverly
- Blandford
- Bourne
- Boxford
- Braintree Town
- Bridgewater Town
- Brockton
- Brookline
- Cambridge
- Chelsea
- Chicopee
- Cochituate
- Danvers
- Devens
- Duxbury
- East Brookfield
- Easthampton
- Edgartown
- Fall River
- Falmouth
- Fitchburg
- Foxborough
- Framingham
- Franklin Town
- Gloucester
- Great Barrington
- Haverhill
- Holyoke
- Housatonic
- Leominster
- Longmeadow
- Lowell
- Lunenburg
- Lynn
- Lynnfield
- Madaket
- Malden
- Marlborough
- Marshfield
- Medfield
- Melrose
- Methuen
- Millers Falls
- Nahant
- Nantucket
- New Bedford
- Newburyport
- Newton
- North Adams
- North Attleborough Town
- North Brookfield
- Northampton
- Northborough
- Oak Bluffs
- Onset
- Palmer Town
- Peabody
- Pepperell
- Petersham
- Pittsfield
- Provincetown
- Quincy
- Randolph Town
- Revere
- Saugus
- Scituate
- Somerville
- Southbridge Town
- Stoneham
- Sturbridge
- Swampscott
- Taunton
- Topsfield
- Turners Falls
- Vineyard Haven
- Walpole
- Waltham
- Ware
- Watertown
- Wellesley
- West Brookfield
- West Springfield Town
- Westborough
- Westfield
- Weymouth Town
- Wilbraham
- Winchendon
- Winthrop Town
- Woburn
- Worcester
Counties in Massachusetts
How the state answer works: we combine the answers of the counties we've checked and the cities we've confirmed. If they all agree, the state gets that answer; if they disagree, it shows “Partly”. With none checked, the map uses FCC license data the same way (analog, mixed or digital per county, lighter colour), labelled “based on FCC license data, not yet confirmed”. How we check