DETROIT – The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a group of residents who filed a lawsuit against city officials over the Detroit Police Department’s use of ShotSpotter gunshot-detection technology.
The technology uses sensors to detect the sound of firearm discharge and relays the location to police.
Attorneys with the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice and the Detroit Justice Center accuse the city of violating the Community Input over Government Surveillance Ordinance when the City Council voted to extend the city’s ShotSpotter contract and to implement the technology in an expanded area in 2022…