City of Milwaukee - File #: 040559

• File #: 040559
• Version: 0
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/1/2004
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
• Final action: 9/21/2004
• Effective date: 10/8/2004
• Title: An ordinance relating to burglary alarm response requirements for private alarm businesses licensed by the city.
• Sponsors: ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. WITKOWSKI, ALD. PUENTE, ALD. D'AMATO, ALD. MCGEE JR., James N. Witkowiak, ALD. HAMILTON
• Indexes: ALARM SYSTEMS, LICENSES, NUISANCES, POLICE DEPARTMENT

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/7/2004	0	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
9/30/2004	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
9/21/2004	0	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	13:2
9/9/2004	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE; Minutes note: Speakers: Chris Utter - Alarm Industry South Deputy Inspector Joe Whiten Ald. Wade John - lives on the north side of Milwaukee near Lincoln Park Bill Cooper - Security Industry Alarm Coalition (paid by ADT) Ald. Hamilton	Pass	4:1
9/3/2004	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
9/2/2004	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
9/1/2004	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
040559
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN, WITKOWSKI, PUENTE, D'AMATO, MCGEE, WITKOWIAK AND HAMILTON
Title
An ordinance relating to burglary alarm response requirements for private alarm businesses licensed by the city.
Sections
105-75-2-b am
105-75-2-j rn
105-75-2-j cr
105-75-3-b-8 am
105-75-7-a am
105-75-9-d-5 rn
105-75-9-d-5 cr
105-75-9-d-6 cr
105-75-12-a am
105-75-12-c-3 cr
105-75-13-a-0 am
105-75-13-c-3 cr
105-75-14-f cr
105-75-14-g cr
Analysis
This ordinance requires that, prior to relaying a burglary alarm to the police department, a private alarm business shall obtain verification from a private first responder that an attempted or actual crime has occurred at the alarm site. A "private first responder" could be a private security company, an employe of an alarm business, an alarm user or a person appointed by the alarm user to be responsible for confirming that an attempted or actual crime has occurred at the alarm site. An alarm business shall provide a private first responder service as a condition of obtaining and maintaining a license to operate in the city of Milwaukee. Failure to provide a private first responder service or to obtain a response verifying an attempted or actual crime before contacting the police shall be grounds for non-renewal or revocation of an alarm business license.
Body
Whereas, The Common Council finds that 96% of the burglary alarms to which the Milwaukee Police Department responds are false alarms; and

Whereas, The Common Council finds that police responses to false alarms from private burglary alarm systems are unnecessarily consuming scarce property tax dollars and police man-hours while also increasing police response times to actual crimes; and

Whereas, The Common Council believes that property taxpayers at large should not be responsible for the costs incurred by the City in responding to such false alarms; and

Whereas, The Common Council seeks to...