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Central Electronic Alarm

Family-owned Portland alarm company (since 1962) installing burglar alarms, camera systems and access control for homes and businesses in Oregon and Southern Washington, with monitoring.

Visit website (503) 257-9696

At a glance

Electrical contractor (limited energy, 06): CENTREA041K3 · verify with L&I
Alarm monitoring: Its own monitoring center (as the company describes it)
Address: 8425 SE Stark St., Portland, OR 97216
Serves: Vancouver, Clark County
Services: Wired alarm systems, PoE camera systems, Local video recording (NVR)

Public record

Washington L&I records for this company’s licence from the last 5 years:

Suspensions (1)

Oct 7, 2022 Licence suspended · reinstated Dec 1, 2022

A record isn’t proof of poor work: busy companies do more jobs and so collect more records, and many fines concern paperwork or staff certificates. Ask the company about anything here. Checked Nov 2, 2026 with Washington L&I. Full record: CENTREA041K3. What this covers.

Central Electronic Alarm is a family-owned security company at 8425 SE Stark St. in Portland, in business since 1962. Its site says it protects homes and businesses in Oregon and Southern Washington, and it holds a Washington L&I limited energy (06) electrical contractor license.

For homes, it lists:

Burglar alarm systems for homes and businesses.
Camera systems: high-resolution IP cameras with remote viewing, motion alerts and recording and storage, with optional 24/7 professional camera monitoring.
Access control with key cards and biometric readers, for homes and businesses.
Residential smoke detection as part of its fire alarm work.

On monitoring, the services page offers to connect systems to “our reliable monitoring center” for dispatch of emergency services. It also installs commercial fire alarms and does fire inspections.