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Electronic catalog of items good for business, pawn shop owners say
Forsyth County considering ordinance like Hall's
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As Forsyth County considers an ordinance to require pawnshops to digitally track sellers with fingerprints and photos, police and local pawnshops talk about how the similar ordinance Gainesville implemented in November has worked.
Gainesville police say they are seeing results after an ordinance was passed in November requiring pawnbrokers to maintain an electronic database of items and sellers. The aim was to make it easier for law enforcement officials to recover stolen property sold to pawnshops. “We have already begun seeing results that are a direct correlation to this ordinance,” police spokesman Cpl. Kevin Holbrook said.