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DEFENDERS

ADT Dealer DEFENDERS Draws Scrutiny From Chicago News Station

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Courtney Wolfe
February 12, 2019
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On Feb. 3, CBS 2 Chicago ran a lengthy investigative story about DEFENDERS, ADT’s largest authorized dealer. While multiple allegations were presented, the main argument was that DEFENDERS has “hundreds of frustrated customers who said they were duped, in some cases overpaying by thousands of dollars.”


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Did a Security Company Lose a Contract for Revenge?

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Lessing E. Gold
February 4, 2019
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An interesting case arose several years ago in Connecticut whereby the plaintiff alleged that they lost the city’s business because the defendants — the city of New London and its former city manager — intended to retaliate against the plaintiff for having filed a lawsuit complaining about police practices in New London.


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SIAC

San Jose, Calif. Drops Verified Response Program After Spike in Burglaries

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Courtney Wolfe
January 25, 2019
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San Jose, Calif. has become the 11th U.S. city to drop the controversial alarm management practice known as “verified response.” 


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EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

Beyond the Basics of Emergency & Mass Notification

Today’s mass notification and emergency communication systems go beyond the traditional to include many new ways of keeping people safe.
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Karyn Hodgson
January 24, 2019
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How do you define the difference between emergency communication and mass notification? It turns out the difference is not so cut and dried.


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SDM EXCLUSIVE

EMERgency24 Celebrates 50 Years of Firsts

Join us as SDM looks back on EMERgency24’s 50 years in the security industry, how it all began, and the company’s evolution into the 21st century.
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Maggie Shein
January 21, 2019
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On April 27, 1967, Dante Monteverde founded what is now EMERgency24 in Chicago.


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Georgia

The Georgia Electronic Life Safety & System Association Files Notice of Appeal in Federal Lawsuit

January 17, 2019
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The Georgia Electronic Life Safety & Systems Association (GELSSA), A-Com Security Co. LLP and Safecom Security Solutions Inc. alarm companies filed a notice of appeal in their federal lawsuit against the city of Sandy Springs, Georgia, challenging the constitutionality of an ordinance that imposes fines on alarm companies for false alarms caused by alarm users. 


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ADT Command

ADT Unveils New Command & Control Security System at CES 2019

January 7, 2019
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ADT Inc., a provider of monitored security and interactive home and business automation solutions in the United States and Canada, today announced the unveiling of its newly redesigned smart home security system — the ADT Command Panel & Control Platform (ADT Command) — as well as a suite of smart security and home automation products at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES). 


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Peter Stouffer Named VP of Acquisitions for Guardian Alarm

January 7, 2019
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Guardian Alarm has named Peter J. Stouffer as its new vice president of acquisitions. The Michigan-based company’s expansion efforts encompass security services, monitoring, fire, life safety, medical monitoring, access control and video monitoring services.


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AlarmHub

UL to Release New AlarmHUB Soon

January 2, 2019
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Managing alarm system certification now can be easier than ever with a versatile application designed by the alarm industry, for the alarm industry.


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ALARM VERIFICATION

How Monitoring Companies Can Blaze the Trail to Video-Verified Response

The ultimate goal of PPVAR is to reduce false alarms and increase apprehension rates for intrusion alarm customers. Here’s how monitoring companies can blaze that trail.
January 2, 2019
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One of the most pressing issues facing monitoring companies, law enforcement, end users and the security industry at-large is the need for decreasing false alarm dispatches while increasing emergency response times in true emergencies.


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