IDAHO FALLS - The first ordinance passed the Leads Online Program which made it a law that all pawn shops have to electronically submit merchandise information to the police.

The Leads Online Program is nationwide. It prevents people from taking stolen items to pawn shops that participate in the program.
"We can do a query and put the model number, the brand name, serial number and if it's pawned anywhere that's a leads online participant, it will come back and say who pawned it, where it was pawned from and we'll be able to recover that merchandise," says Captain Ken Brown of the Idaho Falls Police Department.
Before the system, owners had to submit information in writing. Names, addresses and other forms of identification to help police find stolen items.
The proposed amendment would affect the documentation of serial numbers or model numbers if available. In the past when it was done on paper, there was a serial and model number in the paper work. This amendment ensures the new system will have everything the officer could need.
"On the new system we just want it in there that if there is a serial number, a model number available, that it be posted," says Brown.

But pawn shop employees say often times that can be troublesome and they feel this amendment could lead to others.
"I think its just a way to make things harder for us instead of the law helping us," says Helena Martinez of the Variety Mart. When I asked her why she though that, she replied, "Because not everything serial numbers and if they're getting picky now, it's going to get more picky later."
Police used to go and collect the paper work at the various pawn shops. Now it's the store's responsibility. With anywhere from 20 to 80 items coming into stores like Variety Mart, all the sales could take quite awhile.
"Now it takes a good hour a night," says Martinez. "Depending on how many things you have come in?" I asked. "Yeah anywhere from an hour to two or three."
It's hard for some shop owners to switch from the old paper system, to the new digital one.
Some dealers had to buy the computer and equipment to submit the work, but police say the information can be done from any computer, whether its one at home or in one of the local libraries.
Police will propose this amendment and the graffiti ordinance to city council tonight at 7:30.