New rules surrounding police street checks are coming into place Friday, but Windsor's police service's board continues to fight the change.
Board Member Joanne Gignac doesn't think it's fair for the province to enforce the policy, when the municipality pays 90% of the police service's budget.
"We're supposed to, on an annual basis, decide on a business model, and a model that would protect our community," she explains. "This one component, this one policy, I think is going to have the single most impact on what we do here."
Gignac says a letter was sent to Ontario's Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services Yasir Naqvi, about Windsor's concerns, but she was disappointed with his response.
She says his reply talked about consultation the province had done before making a decision on street checks. Gignac argues that Windsor was never consulted.
A grace period for officers to learn the new rules comes into effect July 1, so that's it's fully implemented by January 2017.
