I Found the NYBSA Release
12/17/2025
We Don't Poop in the Water - Exempt Us
Those who keep tabs on BuffScan may recall that prior to my acceptance of the Keep Police Radio Public Act (Assembly Bill A3516), I decried the structure of public safety radio preservation in the act as being the product of a suspiciously selfish agenda by legacy media.
Doing some basic Googling, it seems I wasn't too far off the mark. The New York State Broadcasters Association implies by way of this release that it figured into the bill's evolution (note in the release this phraseology "Our next step is the Governor.").
Selfish because, if you're going to fight to keep public safety communication in the clear for just one group, why not do the obvious thing and make this about keeping everything public in the first place.
Or put another way, just like Senate Bill S416 had it before it was substituted by the currently-poised-to-become-law, A3516.
Keeping a push to keep radio traffic public is not only the obvious fight to have, it's, as I say, the likely practicing outcome, once it becomes clear there is no bullet-proof way to segment this type of action between people and so-called "professional" journalists. Unlike the issue of body armor the same group cites as an example of exempting media houses from something otherwise restricted. Body armor is material goods and can be held, pushed, and pulled back from someone.
Radio carrier, not so much.
The group seemed to put the energy of its cause behind the notion that there hasn't been any significant issue with journalists showing up at crime scenes.
...No New York law enforcement agency has provided any evidence that journalists have been a problem or pose a future problem to police officers...
...by that logic, I would challenge the group that anyone with a police scanner has ever, beyond nuisance, been more or less a "problem", either, whatever that inference is supposed to mean anyway.
Or, we can tackle this from the other side. Since when haven't journalists showing up at crime scenes not been considered a problem? Have we never heard of anything called the paparazzi? Is there not an entire body of ethical contemplation in journalism and media education precisely because they're always a potential problem?
People reporting truth or telling a story not meant to be told are always someone's problem. Just because a media house slaps a 60 second Subaru commercial over their brand of that problem doesn't "honorably distinguish". Rather it's quite perverse actually.
The reason for the difference between S416 and A3516 are forces striving to narrow access to a powerful now-premium encrypted rich information stream to themselves.
In bringing these words to you, I'm not walking back my newfound support for the imminent law. I'm simply pointing out that my crackpot theory over special interests tailoring a movement to their profit motivated brand of news collection ("professional journalists") is not exactly assuaged when lo and behold I do find such a group with its fingers so close to the scale.
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BuffScan Pokey Report
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 12/16/25- AMAYA-MARQUEZ, ESMELIN
- ANDINO, FRANCISCO
- BAXTER, JAMEL J
- CALABRESE, ANTHONY
- COOK, CLARENCE T
- ELDRIDGE, IEESHA
- FABRIZIO, DANIELLE B
- HARGE, DARRELL W
- HUBER, SCOTT
- HUFFMAN, DEJAUN
- JANCZYLIK, JUSTIN
- MCDANIEL, JAMEER
- OFFHAUS, SHAWN
- PLETL, KATIE
- PRIMERANO, ANTHONY S
- RIOS, ANTHONY L
- RODRIGUEZ, EMMANUEL D
- SEXTON, CHRISTOPHER
- WRIGHT, JAMES H
** In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard. For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.
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