By Chris Newhook, Central Station Manager, American Alarm The Monitoring Association (TMA, formerly CSAA) is my number one resource – my one-stop shop — for industry feedback, as well as educational and operational best practices. As if this wasn’t enough, it also serves as the backbone of my peer network. While its strength lies with […]
Manatee County 9-1-1 recently became the 25th agency in the United States and second in Florida to adopt ASAP, the service that will save emergency responders precious moments when home alarms sound. The Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) allows outside alarm monitoring companies such as Brinks and Vector to send information directly to call takers in […]
Membership Votes for New Officers at ESX 2017 Members of The Monitoring Association (TMA) chose their next president at the General Membership Meeting in Nashville on June 13: Ivan Spector, president of Montreal-based Sentinel Alarm Co. Sentinel has been in the security and critical monitoring business for more than 40 years and is a full-service, custom-designed […]
Ivan Spector is Voted President-Elect of The Monitoring Association Membership Votes for New Officers at ESX 2017 VIENNA, VA (June 28, 2017) – Members of The Monitoring Association (TMA) chose their next president at the General Membership Meeting in Nashville on June 13: Ivan Spector, president of Montreal-based Sentinel Alarm Co. Sentinel has been in […]
Issue: Movement by the state of Washington to start charging sales tax on monitoring. Recent audits by the Washington Department of Revenue (DOR) in Washington State have raised questions about an Excise Tax Authority (ETA) issued on March 7, 2014 regarding the sales tax implications for alarm monitoring companies and dealers. At the center of the […]
For the sixth consecutive year, AICC Chair Louis T. Fiore is coordinating the annual AICC Communications Survey. “The results have been used to inform regulators of our [industry] communications needs,” he says. “It only works if the response is robust. So please participate!” This survey focuses on the percentages of monitored accounts using POTS (plain […]
The California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS) recently made a significant change to their alarm company operator (ACO) licensing requirements. In order to obtain or renew an ACO license with CA BSIS, they now require that the company provide an in-state address. According to the bureau, the reason for this change is to […]
John M. Merklinger, Director of the Rochester/Monroe County 911 Center and 311 Call Center, was awarded The Monitoring Association’s 2017 Public Sector Award at the 2017 Electronic Security Expo (ESX) Public Safety Luncheon on Friday, June 16, at Music City Center in Nashville. This special honor is given by TMA in recognition of a public sector individual’s contribution […]
TMA member Custom Alarm, a locally owned and operated company located in Rochester, MN with its own UL listed Monitoring Response Center, has been named one of Southeast Minnesota’s Best Places to Work. The “Best Places to Work” awards program was a commissioned study by Workforce Development Inc. The purpose of the program is to […]
TMA welcomes alliantgroup, a nationwide tax consultancy and the nation’s leading provider of R&D tax credit services, as a new Associate member. alliantgroup is a specialty tax services consultancy that exists to help U.S. businesses and their CPA firms identify and properly claim all available federal and state tax incentives which are intended to help businesses grow […]
