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Council committee advances ordinance to require electronic reporting for secondhand goods; business groups warn of scope
Summary
The Public Health & Safety Committee advanced a Chapter 41 amendment to require electronic reporting of secondhand‑goods transactions to a police‑designated platform, with administrators saying the change modernizes existing recordkeeping and callers warning the rule is too broad.
The Public Health & Safety Committee voted to forward a proposed amendment to Chapter 41 of the Detroit City Code — requiring secondhand goods dealers, pawnbrokers, scrap‑metal dealers and similar sellers to submit transaction records electronically to a police‑designated platform — to new business with a recommendation to approve.
Justin Anuwene, director of entrepreneurship for the City of Detroit, outlined the ordinance's purpose: "This secondhand goods electronic reporting ordinance seeks to make it easier for DPD to understand where stolen goods ... are coming from, where they're being sold out of, so that we can…
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