Vol. 13, No. 19 - December 3, 2007
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New Draft Release of the CSAA Video Verification Standard

The Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA) has released the latest draft version of its CS-V-02 Video Verification Procedures for Burglar Alarms.

Please review the draft, available at http://www.csaaintl.org/VideoVerification112807v2.doc, and send any questions or comments to Heather Peterson (hpeterson@copsmonitoring.com or 856-629-1111, ext. 1104) or Jim McMullen (jmcsaa@copsmonitoring.com or 856-629-1111, ext. 1100) no later then Friday, December 7th. The final document will then go through the formal review process.

Tom Thomasson Reels In the Big Ones!

Thomas Thomasson
Thomas Thomasson

We went fishing for new CSAA members this summer and we hauled in quite a catch! We received 18 inquiries and increased the CSAA family with 10 new companies:

  • RTI International (Proprietary)
  • Fidelity Investments (Proprietary)
  • Berrian Insurance Group (Consultant)
  • iWatch Communications, Inc. (North American)
  • AT Security (Associate)
  • Infinity Monitoring Services (North American)
  • EXPEDEUM (Consultant)
  • Burgarello Alarm (North American)
  • Secure Net Systems (Associate)

Congratulations to Thomas Thomasson, formerly of HID Corp. and now with Synthesis Security Management Systems. Tom was not only the winner in the "Biggest Fish" category, but also hauled the "Biggest Catch."

Many thanks also to our other "anglers:" Daniel Demers (Reliance Protectron), Chet Donati (DMC Security), David Hood (First Alarm), Joe Miskulin (State Farm), Stanley Oppenheim (DGA Security), Dick Sampson (American Alarm & Communications), and Scott Wulforst (A-1 Security) and to any other member who participated.

Watch this space for information about the 2008 Member-get-a-member Campaign.

2007 Annual Meeting Overheads Posted

The overheads for most of the 2007 CSAA Annual Meeting presentations have been posted in a password-protected area accessed at www.csaaintl.org/2007AmOverheads.htm The login information, which must be entered as spelled out below, is provided below.

Username: UNDISCLOSED
Password: UNDISCLOSED

We expect to have photos of the 2007 CSAA Annual Meeting posted in the CSAA Web site in the near future.