{"id":3154,"date":"2025-10-14T16:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3154\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:30:06","slug":"citys-updated-alarm-ordinance-requires-lubbock-residents-businesses-with-alarm-systems-to-have-valid-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3154\/","title":{"rendered":"City\u2019s updated alarm ordinance requires Lubbock residents, businesses with alarm systems to have valid permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; As of October 1, 2025, citizens with alarm systems are now required to have a valid permit in compliance with the City of Lubbock\u2019s updated False Alarm Ordinance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The ordinance hopes to reduce the number of false burglary and robbery alarms at homes and businesses. The Lubbock Police Department reports officers respond to about 18,000 alarm-related calls each year. More than 95% of those calls are false alarms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alarm holders should receive an official letter from LPD notifying the owner of a $50 permit fee and payment instructions. The previous policy required permits after three \u201cfalse alarm\u201d responses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department emphasizes these letters are legitimate and not a scam. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Citizens can find detailed instructions about the permitting process on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ci.lubbock.tx.us\/departments\/police-department\/crime-safety\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ci.lubbock.tx.us\/departments\/police-department\/crime-safety\">department\u2019s website<\/a> under the \u2018Crime &amp; Safety\u2019 and \u2018False Alarm\u2019 tabs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ci.lubbock.tx.us\/departments\/police-department\/crime-safety\/false-alarm-information\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ci.lubbock.tx.us\/departments\/police-department\/crime-safety\/false-alarm-information\">Click here for a full list of ordinance guidelines<\/a>. Citizens can even find tips on how to help reduce false alarm calls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alarm holders will be notified when permits are ready to be issued. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; As of October 1, 2025, citizens with alarm systems are now required to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[994,447,3604,319,251,168,170,169,3605],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-city-of-lubbock","tag-community","tag-false-alarm-ordinance","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}