Public Safety Updates

• MS: City ordinance requires security cameras installed
  12.20.23 – Online Madison – Requirements of the ordinance include the installation of security cameras for the parking lot, entry and exit door, and for businesses to keep …

Featured Articles

• Too much occupational licensing could stop people from …
  12.24.23 – Illinois Policy – Illinois’ burdensome job licensing process makes it harder to become a security alarm installer, meaning holiday thieves such as the Grinch or the Wet Bandits from “Home Alone” might find burglary easier here than in neighboring states.
• The Vital Role of Detection Technology and Security Integrators in School Safety
  12.19.23 – SSI – There is an increasing recognition of the indispensable role safety measures and technology play in addressing school safety.
• Tech heavy hitters join forces to form AI Alliance
  12.22.23 – SIW – By Kiplinger Staff – Source Kiplinger Consumer News Service. A group of tech heavy hitters is joining forces to boost artificial intelligence with one key goal: a coordinated effort to enhance safety amid the rising fears of AI risk, including misinformation, cyber threats, discrimination and data theft.

Business Tips      

• Connectivity Standards Alliance Announces Mobile Device and Wearables Effort
  12.20.23 – SSI – Aliro is a common credential and protocol that enhances interoperability between mobile devices and readers and unlocks greater adoption.
• It’s Time to Trust Video Surveillance Systems
  12.20.23 – SSI – Keir Hoppe – As the video surveillance industry continues to boom, will we ever become comfortable with the trade-off between autonomy and security?
• How to align building technology integration, interoperability, and security
  12.22.23 – SIW – Andrew Froehlich – Despite endless hours of preparation and execution, building integrations often don’t work as intended or as needed to meet increasingly common energy reporting requirements or organizational sustainability goals.
• Strategies to Ensure Access Control Demands Keep Pace with Organizational Change
  12.18.23 – SIW – Timothy Sutton, CPP, CHPA – Deploying a holistic planning approach in conjunction with conducting comprehensive assessments is crucial to mitigating risk

Crime

• FL: Burglary suspect arrested with old taser prong attached, had …
  12.20.23 – 13wham.com – Key West, Fla. (TND) – A man in the Florida Keys is facing charges after hotel guests told police “someone had entered their hotel room and …
• FL: Florida man burglarizes house after homeowner lets him in …
  12.19.23 – FOX 35 Orlando- When the homeowner went back into the kitchen to get the beer, Hudson allegedly went into the man’s bedroom and started going through his …
• FL: Florida teens’ burglary attempt of officer’s car thwarted …
  12.21.23 – FOX 35 Orlando – Around 11:30 p.m., an off-duty officer living in the Grand Reserve subdivision received alerts on his phone from his Ring camera. He saw two …
• HI: HPD: 4 suspects wanted in connection to brazen … –
  12.20.23 – NewsBreak – Honolulu – Honolulu police are asking for help finding four suspects caught on camera breaking into the…
• IL: Burglars, including one posing as pizza man, break into Elk …
  12.22.23 – Elk Grove – A Ring doorbell captured the moment a burglar was casing a home posing as a food delivery driver in Elk Grove. The break-in happened in broad daylight while the family was out of town, and now they’re warning others …
• MD: Ring video captures brazen juvenile burglary in Madison …
  12.22.23 – WBFF Fox45 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, …
• SC: Caught on camera: Burglary at Greenville County motel …
  12.19.23 – WYFF – Two men were caught on surveillance video breaking into vending machines at a Greenville County motel, just feet away from where a clerk was …
• WA: Video shows burglar breaking into Monroe business by …
  6.18.23 – KING5.com — Video shows burglar breaking into Monroe business by breaking window not connected to alarm. Police posted a video of one of the burglaries, …

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