Molly Kleinman, the managing director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program at the University of Michigan, commented to Michigan Advance about the Detroit Police Department use of ShotSpotter.
"In terms of the best practices for any city that is contracting with a company for any sort of surveillance technology, whether that's gunshot detection, whether that's license plate readers, whether that's other kinds of cameras, is that the city absolutely needs to know the locations of these things," Kleinman told Michigan Advance.
Kleinman added that she believes that the general public should also have access to the locations of surveillance technologies more broadly, though cities will often push back against that level of access, citing security concerns.
"There are a lot of things that I would expect a city to have access to from the company that it's contracting with for surveillance technology," she said. "Just in principle, it's not great that Detroit doesn't have access to the locations of the ShotSpotter sensors."
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