![]() "The response we've received to date has been sympathetic, but ultimately no-one has been willing to take any action", she said. And she has spent the last two years writing to various community leaders and politicians about the issue. ![]() The device was eventually removed from the shopping centre, but Ms Seymour-Dearness wants to see a national ban. So they didn't want people loitering at the front of the stall," she told RN Breakfast. It was on 24 hours a day and they said that it was actually for the purpose of deterring people during business hours. "As a first step, we contacted centre management and they told us that it was installed particularly for that purpose to deter people from loitering. Melissa Seymour-Dearness, principal solicitor at the Taylor Street Community Legal Center in Queensland's Fraser Coast region, received a number of complaints from young people, including a supermarket employee, about a high-pitched piercing sound they could hear at a local shopping centre in 2016. Sonic security devices used around the clock They're generally used only after dark when they have loitering problems". "They're not turned on, they're not used throughout the day or 24 hours a day.
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