Delaware state representative Byron Short introduced a bill to the state legislature on Wednesday that would require door-to-door salespeople throughout the nation’s first state to wear an ID badge when selling, according to CommunityPub.com.
Name, organization and contact information are the primary items Short wants displayed on the plastic ID cards.
The move follows complaints from townspeople regarding the tactics employed by salespeople in the Highland Woods, Delaware area.
"We’re not talking about Girl Scouts selling cookies," Landry said. "We’re talking about the people bused in from out of town, showing up without ID, oftentimes after dark. You don’t know if it’s a legitimate sale, if it’s fraud or even if they’re just scoping a place for a later theft," Chuck Landry, an area civic leader, told the news provider.
In recent years, towns in the U.S. have placed similar restrictions on the behavior of door-to-door salespeople. In 2008, Medford, Massachusetts, adopted a town ordinance that allowed residents to place their addresses on a "No-Knock" registry to similar to the national Do Not Call Registry, according to the Medford Transcript.
Both towns, however, do not ban non-profit organizations from soliciting donations.
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