Article: Where were you? Town should choose trust over GPS.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)

COLUMN: In our opinion

Equipping vehicles with GPS tracking devices can be useful in some cases - such as finding expensive cars if they get stolen, keeping tabs on a teenage driver's whereabouts or helping route a delivery fleet.

But a proposal in West Brookfield to equip up to 10 town vehicles with GPS just so officials can know where the vehicles are strikes us as TMI - too much information, and way too much intrusion.

In recommending that Highway Department trucks be fitted with the tracking devices at a Board of Selectmen meeting Tuesday, Selectman Barry J. Nadon Jr. mentioned that a truck driven by Highway Superintendent Jason J. Benoit ...

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