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Resident says city, company pushed her to put ShotSpotter on her home

A day after Channel 11 talked to a man who found a ShotSpotter device installed on his home without his permission, a woman reached out to us to say she’s encountered problems with the city program as well.

She claims she's being strong-armed into putting the gunshot detecting device on her Mt. Washington home by the city of Pittsburgh and the company that runs the system.

“They were persistent,” said Brooke Nadonley. “The man didn't seem to want to take ‘no’ for an answer.”

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Nadonley was surprised when a representative from ShotSpotter, along with city police, approached her about putting one of the devices on her home.

“They said my house is the highest point on the street, which is obviously not true,” she said.

She initially agreed to host ShotSpotter on her home but then had second thoughts about it.

“We actually don't have many shootings in our area,” she said. “And we certainly are not the types to not call in shots fired as in some neighborhoods who would need this.”

Nadonley says ShotSpotter wouldn't take no for an answer.

"After I said no verbally, they went around me to my landlord and had the ShotSpotter company really almost harassing my landlord to force them into this around me," she said. "And my landlord had advised them that I was given permission to make the decision. So they were pretty persistent. They were quite persistent."

Target 11 obtained an email ShotSpotter sent to Nadonley's landlord explaining that the device would be hidden, and no property information would be revealed. They said this was holding up the project.

Nadonley broke off talks with ShotSpotter in early September and hasn't heard from them since.

“We certainly don’t trust that they won't install them wherever they feel like it,” she said. “It's very big brother for us in the city.”

Channel 11 reached out to the city and ShotSpotter for comment, but they have not responded.