Tag: fire districts
Courts side with alarm industry in Illinois
October 4, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—Two court decisions in late August bolstered the alarm industry's position in an ongoing dispute in Illinois over public entities taking control of fire alarm monitoring away from private companies.“This bodes well for the future,” Kevin Lehan, executive director of the Illinois Electronic Security Association (IESA), which is based here, said of the most recent judicial rulings.The alarm industry had already won one round this summer, when a federal judge...