Wichita enacts steeper fees for false security and fire alarms

Published June 8, 2010 at 5:34 p.m.

False alarms on home and business security systems will cost users more money starting Aug. 1.

And that’s expected to help recover some of the costs the city incurs responding to about 25,000 alarms a year — 98 percent of which are false calls.

Wichita City Council members voted 4-3 to approve the new rules. Council members Sue Schlapp, Jim Skelton and Paul Gray opposed it.

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