CSAA votes to change name to The Monitoring Association Jay Hauhn: New name better reflects what monitoring companies do
By Martha Entwistle
Updated Tue June 14, 2016
FORT WORTH, Texas—The Central Station Alarm Association name is on its way out.
At the June 6 CSAA general membership meeting here at the ESX show here in Fort Worth, Texas, members voted to change the name to The Monitoring Association. The association previously notified members of the vote.
Jay Hauhn, CSAA executive director, told Security Systems News that 90 percent of those voting were in favor of changing the name to The Monitoring Association, "and the other 10 percent wanted to change the name, the only discussion was about what exactly the new name should be."
The new name signals a change in direction for the association, and is among a list of improvements and updates that Hauhn and CSAA president Pam Petrow have outlined over the past year or so.
Hauhn said the new name better reflects what professional monitoring companies do. "Central Station Alarm Association is an old school term that was driven by UL standards," he said.
Today's monitoring companies are monitoring "things that are mobile, people, and more. It's not just the monitoring of fixed assets anymore," Hauhn said.
Petrow said that there are some research and registration tasks that the association will have to complete before the name change is official.
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