Officers responding to bogus home alarms risk be ing diverted from real crime, they say.
Now, Mason is fighting back with some of the steepest false-alarm fines in the Tristate. The ordinance is designed to make people aware that if an alarm is not functioning properly, it doesn't benefit anyone. And it just so happens that fees have a way of catching people's attention. Mason joins other Tristate communities that charge alarm owners for false calls. Hamilton, Lebanon and Florence are reviewing whether to increase fines, too.