AGA and AGEM have launched a partnership to fight unregulated gaming machines in the United States.
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US.- The\u00a0American Gaming Association<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(AGA) and the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM) announced a new partnership to combat the unchecked spread of unregulated gaming machines throughout the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ongoing campaign will focus on providing state and local policymakers, law enforcement, and regulatory agencies with\u00a0new resources and tools<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to stop the proliferation of unregulated gaming machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 20 professional gaming organizations have joined the AGA and AGEM in opposition to the spread of unregulated gaming, including the National Indian Gaming Association, the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, the International Center for Responsible Gaming, the National Council on Problem Gambling, multiple state casino and tribal associations, and both of the leading independent gaming equipment test labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStamping out the illegal market that threatens the safety of consumers will always be one of the gaming industry\u2019s highest priorities,\u201d said Bill Miller, president and CEO of the American Gaming Association. \u201cWe are proud to work with the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers and our fellow industry partners to combat the spread of illegal machines. The AGA is encouraged that policymakers in some states such as Virginia have begun to recognize the dangers of these machines and have taken recent legislative action toward outlawing them. Unfortunately, other jurisdictions where these machines have become pervasive may believe their only recourse is to regulate and tax them. Rewarding bad behaviour is not the answer, and we hope our education efforts will make it clear that the only real solution is to stop the spread of these devices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe regulated gaming industry has rarely been more united on a singular issue and now we have a tool to address the misinformation and deception that unregulated machine companies use to confound law enforcement, the courts, and local citizens,\u201d said Marcus Prater, executive director of the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers. \u201cThe spread of these machines represents a serious threat to the overall regulated market that has invested billions in infrastructure while also creating thousands of jobs and substantial tax benefits in the communities they serve. Moreover, unregulated machines prey on confused players who see slot machine symbols and think they\u2019re getting a fair chance when they absolutely are not.\u201d AGA and AGEM have launched a partnership to fight unregulated gaming machines in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The American Gaming Association (AGA) and the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM) have formed a strategic partnership to combat the proliferation of unregulated gaming machines across the United States. This initiative aims to equip policymakers, law enforcement, and regulatory bodies with essential resources to address the threat these machines pose to consumer safety, market integrity, and the regulated gaming industry's substantial economic contributions. The campaign underscores a unified industry stance against illegal operations, advocating for outright prohibition over taxation of illicit devices.","focusai_entities":"American Gaming Association (AGA), Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM), National Indian Gaming Association, North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, International Center for Responsible Gaming, National Council on Problem Gambling, Bill Miller, Marcus Prater","focusai_location":"United States, Virginia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (1.0), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Policy Impact","query":"What specific legislative or enforcement actions are anticipated from this partnership to effectively curb the proliferation of unregulated gaming machines at state and local levels?"},{"label":"Market Integrity Metrics","query":"How will the AGA and AGEM quantify the economic impact of unregulated gaming machines on the legitimate market's GGR, NGR, and tax contributions, and what metrics will be used to track campaign effectiveness?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,162,156],"tags":[337,2319],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elsewhere-news","category-north-america","category-regulation-news","tag-regulation","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008387,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions\/777008387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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