Registration Now Open for SAAA’s Police Forum, April 13th
Please join the Sacramento Area Alarm Association for our 16th Annual Police Forum. Speakers for this event will be Alex Nitterhouse and Steeve Keefer.
Read MorePPVAR Announces TMA’s AVS-01 Received ANSI Accreditation
January 2023. The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has received confirmation that its TMA-AVS-01 Alarm Validation Standard has received official ANSI accreditation. Initiated in 2020 in a joint effort between PPVAR and TMA, the standard provides a method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems.
Read MoreTMA Announces their AVS-01 2023 Alarm Validation Scoring Standard
TMA-AVS-01 provides a standardized method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems that will assist law enforcement with resource allocation and Call for Service prioritization.
Read MoreReversing Itself, Ninth Circuit Invalidates California’s Ban on Mandatory Employment Arbitration Agreements
In 2018, California passed a controversial law called AB-51 (now Labor Code Section 432.6) that prohibited California employers from requiring arbitration agreements as a condition of employment – on pain of jail time and civil penalties. AB-51 was immediately challenged and preliminarily enjoined under the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), which was passed almost 100 years ago to combat judicial “hostility” towards arbitration and preempts any law that discriminates against arbitration agreements.
Read MoreTMA Welcomes Dynamark Monitoring to its ASAP-to-PSAP Service
The Monitoring Association (TMA) welcomed Dynamark Monitoring, Inc. to its growing list of ASAP-to-PSAP connected monitoring centers – bringing the total number to 29. Launched in 2011 as a public-private partnership, TMA’s ASAP service is designed to increase the accuracy and efficiency of calls for service from alarm monitoring centers to Emergency Communication Centers (ECCs)/PSAPs.
Read MoreTDSi Teams Up with Altronix to Offer UL294 Listed Trove Access & Power Integration Solutions
Altronix, the recognized leader in power and data transmission products for the professional security industry has partnered with TDSi, a leading supplier of integrated access control solutions to offer new streamlined access and power integration solutions that are UL294 listed for access control systems.
Read MoreCAFAA Announces New Program: The Bill Hopple Educational Scholarship Award
Willian (Bill) Hopple has been in the Fire Alarm industry for over 50 years and has played an integral role in the CAFAA organization, guiding it with a focus on education.
Read MoreSnap One Honors Partner Award Winners at ISE 2023
Snap One, provider of smart living products, services, and software to professional integrators, officially unveiled the winners of its prestigious Partner Awards at ISE 2023 last week.
Read MoreNapco Offers New Choices in Real-Time Integration & Security Management for their Top-Rated Alarm Lock Wireless Access Locks
Napco Offers New Choices in Real-Time Integration & Security Management for their Top-Rated Alarm Lock Wireless Access Locks.
Read MoreSIAC Briefs on Recent Joint Meeting Between North and South Carolina PD Committee
Recently, the Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) coordinated a joint meeting of the North and South Carolina Police Chiefs Alarm Management Committees.
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