While your New Year's resolution may have been to avoid politics, completely turning a blind eye could hurt your security business. In 2018 alone there were 91 bills passed in the U.S. that the Electronic Security Association (ESA) marked as either medium or high priority for the security industry, and there are plenty more to come in 2019.
Chris Heaton, VP of advocacy and public affairs at the ESA, said that there are two different kinds of bills most likely to affect the security industry in 2019: those involving school security, and those involving occupational licensing.