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Fire monitoring battle ongoing in Illinois

July 28, 2011Tess Nacelewicz

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—A battle in this state over public entities taking control over fire alarm monitoring is still raging, despite a recent federal court ruling saying a public fire district had no legal right to invalidate contracts that ADT Security and other companies had with their customers and put itself solely in charge of commercial fire alarm monitoring. In the July 20 decision, a judge in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois said that a state law establishing...

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