The Georgia General Assembly has approved a bill that would ban counties or municipal corporations from fining alarm companies for false alarms generated by a customer and through no fault of the alarm system’s contractor.

Allied Universal, a security and facility services company in North America, has acquired Security Integration Inc., a security systems company based in San Rafael, Calif.

The New DICE Corporation is empowering security integration companies with Matrix Integrator, a cloud-based video event monitoring, surveillance and alarm notification suite for any video system, anywhere, at any time. 

Cumberland County, Pa. joins a growing number of municipalities across the nation to implement Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) at its Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP).

An assisted living community consisting of several buildings, one of which was used as a residential personal facility for the elderly, experienced a tragic fire. The sprinkler system was protected by a fire protection monitoring service, which had merged with the defendant.

As he transitions and trains over the next several months, he will work with Glen Mowrey, who has shifted to part-time in his role as law enforcement liaison. 

Hart Alarm in Albany, N.Y. a 47-year-old second-generation company, has sold its alarm business to Doyle Security Systems in Rochester, N.Y. Doyle has been in business since 1919. 

A recent case was filed by an insurance company as subrogee against an alarm company in Florida under the choice-of-law rules. The insured contracted with the alarm company to provide monitoring of its business facility.

Today, DMP released its new line of alarm communication radios that are FirstNet Ready and approved for use on FirstNet.

This standard takes alarm verification and confirmation to the next level by defining multiple-attempt confirmation, biometric, audio and video confirmation.