Kingsville Town Council wants more data when it comes to COVID-19 cases in the community.
The town supported Councillor Kim DeYong's motion to ask the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit for more specific information at Monday night's council meeting.
Case counts across Essex County are broken down in the form of a percentage in each municipality on the health unit's website.
But DeYong says detailed hotspots within each municipality are needed.
"Community level containment is what matters for safety. We need to know where these hot spots are taking place because it will affect municipal decisions and the public's ability to make decisions for themselves," she says.
DeYong says there's also a need for more specific information on all workplace outbreaks.
The health unit currently only releases the number of outbreaks and withholds the locations, in contrast to each location under an outbreak being named in the long-term health-care sector.
She's especially concerned when it comes to migrant workers who don't always live on farms.
"We see data released about how many workers have been reported positive, but do we know if it's from where the farm is located," added DeYong.
DeYong wants to know how old a person is and where they contracted the virus.
"Should we be concerned about our splash pads? Should we be concerned about places where certain ages are coming out together and how are they acquiring the virus," she says. "It's not enough to know that it's somewhere in our county."
DeYong says Durham, Hamilton, Peel, and Toronto are proof the data can be distributed. She says they provide an interactive website braking down the number of cases by neighbourhood.
The town is preparing a letter to be sent out to the health unit, local MP's and MPP's.