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Do You Need an Alarm Permit in Shreveport? False Alarm Fees and Rules
Shreveport does not require an alarm permit. Your first false alarm each calendar year brings a warning; then fines are $25, $75, $100, $150 and $300, and $500 each from the 7th. A fine still unpaid 90 days after it becomes final (after the appeal decision or the end of the appeal period) doubles.[1]
Shreveport alarm rules at a glance
| Where these rules apply | These rules apply to burglar alarms at homes and businesses inside the Shreveport police jurisdiction.[1] |
|---|---|
| Fee exemptions | You're not charged for false alarms caused by disasters, vandalism, phone outages, lightning or power surges that damaged the system (with repair proof), or the alarm company. Fines can be waived for a false alarm from faulty equipment you then had repaired (with proof), once a year for a documented service call, and once a year for attending an alarm user class. For a service-call or class waiver, the service call or class must be within 30 days of the false alarm, and the alarm business letterhead or work order documenting it must reach the alarm administrator within one week of the service call or class.[1] |
| Free false alarms | 1 in each calendar year[1] |
| Runs the program | Shreveport Police Department, alarm administrator (fines collected by the city Finance Department, Revenue Division)[1] |
| When to apply | Not required for monitored alarms. Non-monitored alarm owners send the keyholder letter once a year.[1] |
False alarm fees in Shreveport
False alarms are counted over each calendar year[1]. Each fee below is charged per false alarm.
Residential false alarms
If false alarms keep happening: Shreveport's code has no response-suspension or permit-revocation step; fines rise with each false alarm in the calendar year, up to $500 each from the 7th. A fine still unpaid 90 days after it becomes final (90 days after the appeal decision, or after the appeal period ends if you don't appeal) doubles. If police ask you or a keyholder to come and no one arrives within 50 minutes of police arriving, that is a $100 fine.[1]
Paying or contesting a false-alarm fee in Shreveport
- Non-monitored alarm letters go to the Shreveport Police Department alarm administrator; we did not find a published mailing address.[1]
Who files: No permit. Only owners of non-monitored (local) alarms must send the police alarm administrator a yearly letter with the alarm address and keyholder contacts.[1]
Good to know
- Self-installed and self-monitored systems: Non-monitored alarms count too: an audible alarm reported by any citizen and confirmed by an officer, or a call you make to police based on your alarm, is recorded as an alarm. Owners must send the police a yearly letter with keyholder contacts.[1]
- Panic and hold-up alarms: Any false alarm, intentional or not, is a violation charged on the same schedule; Shreveport has no separate panic or hold-up fees.[1]
- Before police are sent: Not confirmed. We did not find a Shreveport rule requiring alarm verification before police respond.
- Not sure which rules apply to your address?: Not confirmed. We did not find an official Shreveport address lookup for alarm rules. Some Shreveport mailing addresses are in unincorporated Caddo or Bossier Parish.
Business and other non-residential alarms
Avoiding false alarms
- Make sure everyone who has a code knows how to disarm the system and cancel an alarm.
- Keep your monitoring company's contact list up to date so they can reach someone quickly.
- Let your monitoring company know before guests, contractors or pet sitters use the house.
- Check that doors and windows are fully closed before you arm the system.
- Replace low sensor batteries promptly.
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Sources
- Shreveport City Council (Municode Library), Shreveport Code of Ordinances, Chapter 6 Alarms, Article II Burglary Alarms — Ord. No. 116, 2005 (9-27-2005), amended by Ord. Nos. 94 and 193 of 2006, 10 of 2008, 24 of 2010. Secs. 6-30 to 6-39. library.municode.com. Checked October 31, 2026.
Updates
- October 31, 2026 — first published from official sources.