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Quick footnote to last week's Serpas Day at the budget hearings, I didn't get a chance to mention. I was waiting for Tom Gogola's Lens report to see if there was any further information regarding this.

Serpas: 7% of calls are for alarms. 90% are false alarms. 42,000 FALSE ALARMS in 2012. Head admits she is responsible for a few. #nola
— Tom Gogola (@tgogolalensnola) November 14, 2012

Head was basically suggesting ticketing people for their false alarms, indicating that false alarms had revenue potentials. #nola
— Tom Gogola (@tgogolalensnola) November 14, 2012

If I manage to fix my laptop over the weekend, maybe I'll get a chance to look at the video just to confirm Gogola's impression.  But he seems to be saying that Stacy Head is thinking of personal home alarm systems that contact the police in the same way she's been thinking about traffic cameras and parking enforcement... as a revenue center.

If this is, in fact, the case, and if, Ms Head's own home is prone to false alarms, I wonder if maybe she's offering to plug the budget hole herself. All she has to do is run outside and trip the motion detector two or three time a week, right?