Minneapolis Chief Medaria Arradondo cautioned against overstretching police officers. 7.28.19 – Star Tribune – By the time the call was canceled, at 3:42 p.m., it had been pending for more than 43 minutes. The call came over the police radio just before 3...
7.17.19 – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sandy Springs touts early success of first-in-Georgia false alarm law Nearly a month in, Sandy Springs says its first-in-Georgia false alarm ordinance has been working — meaning police officers are working less on...
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a bill into law that amends the California Alarm Act to prohibit law enforcement agencies and/or their third-party false alarm compliance contractors from directly billing an alarm company for fines incurred by end-users...
7.12.19 – CBS Dallas / Fort Worth- (CBSDFW.COM) – Confusion cost a Fort Worth couple thousands of dollars in false alarm fees, but the Ones For Justice found it wasn’t entirely their fault. As power of attorney, Joy Herring kept track of every bill her...
7.11.19 – CBS Chicago- Accidentally setting off your home alarms seems like no big deal, but it could cost thousands of dollars like it did for one landlord in Matteson. He says he had no idea he was being charged, let alone racking up a bill of more than...
6.30.19- FARA The False Alarm Reduction Association (FARA) is an association primarily of persons employed by government and public safety agencies in charge of, or working in, False Alarm Reduction Units. FARA opposes legislation that limits local government options...
