BailJumper,
RadioShack is no longer a place you can expect to find anyone who actually knows what they're talking about. Trust me. I worked there for over 8 years. There are people who know, but they are now few and far between. At any rate, after a quick bit of Googling, I have the solution from a pretty credible source. I'll credit the answer to Skip Sanders on the Radio Reference.com board.
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What they're telling you is that no scanner, including yours, can receive 'provoice' signals. It's a modulation/encoding scheme that's not public, not licensed to scanner makers, and available only by buying a commercial radio designed for it.
IF you buy a Pro-Voice capable commercial radio, and IF you can get all the programming info you need for it, and IF it can be programmed on the particular system to receive without ever transmitting to the system to affiliate (some systems, this is not possible), and IF they aren't using special features like ESK that prohibit even a commercial ProVoice radio from working unless it has the special secret key they have for the system, and IF they aren't encrypting the signals on top of everything else, you could monitor the system.
Expensive, and tricky. And may or may not be possible.
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-- He has a HAM license, so I assume the man knows what he's talking about.