What is Enhanced Call Verification and how can it prevent false alarms?
In July 2006, the legislators of the State of Florida made Enhanced Call Verification (generally referred to as “ECV”) became state law; F.S. Statute 489.529 and it as later signed endorsed and signed into law by then Gov. Jeb Bush. The new state legislation is under the heading of Alarm Verification Calls Required within the Florida State statute. The new legislation requires all central monitoring stations that handle residential or commercial intrusion/burglary alarm activations to make “two” (2) phone calls in an attempt to verify the validity of any monitored alarm activation. This is done prior to calling local police/sheriff’s departments to request a dispatch. All alarm monitoring stations, no matter where they are located in the United States and conduct alarm monitoring in the State of Florida, are now mandated to call both the premises generating the alarm activation signal, and if no answer is received, or false verification cannot be determined, the monitoring station then
