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Committee advances ordinance requiring electronic records for secondhand goods dealers, adds three‑strike enforcement
Summary
The Public Health & Safety Committee amended a proposed ordinance to require electronic recordkeeping (Leads Online) for secondhand goods dealers, added a three‑strike threshold for willful failure to report and moved the measure to new business for introduction and a public hearing as amended.
A Detroit Public Health & Safety standing committee on Tuesday moved forward an ordinance that would require secondhand-goods dealers to keep electronic transaction records to help police track stolen property, and it added a three‑strike enforcement standard before license nonrenewal or other penalties apply.
Justin Onwenu, the city presenter on the measure, told the committee the change would convert paper records to an online system (Leads Online) that DPD already subscribes to and that the city would provide to businesses at no cost. "These records are already mandated, but they're written…
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