Monitor current events and public safety response by listening to police and fire radio scanners. Several of these scanners are gatewayed to the Internet via services such as Broadcastify.

East Baton Rouge Sheriff and Baton Rouge Police Department are monitored via a scanner located inside the Baton Rouge city limits.

A Louisiana State Police scanner which normally monitors nearby parishes is monitoring Baton Rouge in the summer of 2016.

RadioReference has East Baton Rouge Parish scanner frequencies for local monitoring via VHF and UHF.