Alachua County Sheriffs Office Profile

COORDINATOR COMMENTS

The Alachua County Sheriff and the previous Gainesville Police Chief intended to pass an ordinance that would cover both the unincorporated areas and the City of Gainesville.

The ordinance would not allow any free false dispatches. Additionally, the central station calling in the alarms would be responsible for paying all false alarm fines. If the central station failed to pay a fine then no other dispatches would be accepted from that central station for any customers until such time as the fine in question was paid. This would apply even to wholesale 3^rd party monitoring companies would could in theory monitor for numerous companies.

At this time the City of Gainesville is proceeding with an attempt to pass the ordinance, but the Alachua County is on hold.