False Alarm Fees to Increase in Central California City
The city council in Lodi, Calif., voted to raise fees and fines for nuisance alarm offenders.
The city council in Lodi, Calif., voted to raise fees and fines for nuisance alarm offenders.
The new verified alarm-response policy will become effective June 1.
The current method of calculating false dispatch rate is inaccurate.
The police department is continuing to send warning letters to repeat offenders and has also started fining homeowners and businesses.
A keyholder for a property triggering a false alarm must be on-site within 30 minutes of notification from firefighters or law enforcement or face a $100 charge.
The police department has implemented the CryWolf software platform to administer false alarm ordinance violations.
Effective Sept. 1, the Swain County Sheriff’s Office will issue citations and fines to alarm owners with faulty security systems.
An ADT customer with a hearing impairment was slapped with false alarms fines totaling $348 after she was unable to communicate with monitoring center dispatchers.
Business owners in Rochester, Minn., are asked to contact their alarm company to request the first alarm notification call go directly to police dispatch.
Businesses and homeowners are being reminded of a false alarm ordinance that comes with a fine.
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