If you’re among the 39 million U.S. households protected by a monitored home security system, chances are you’ve triggered a false alarm or two. What you might not know is that nearly all ...

Cities that adopt false alarm reduction plans, which include fees and verification procedures, experience a 60% reduction in false alarms. False alarms also waste police resources. When law ...

Users intuitively understand the connection between false alarms and response times. 80% of security owners rated “very valuable” the ability of video verification to enable police to respond ...

In fact, as false alarms have grown over the past four years, so have calls for service, which were up nearly 16% in 2024 from 2021. During those four years, ...

San Antonio is considering raising the false alarm fee for all unpermitted burglar and fire alarms to $250. The fees for permitted systems would not change.