The city of Oakland will announce new strategies Monday to address its ongoing problem with illegal dumping.<\/p>\n
The city is expected to discuss a new drone program, and Mayor Barbara Lee will announce additional initiatives to tackle illegal dumping.<\/p>\n
Each year, the city receives thousands of complaints about mounds of old furniture, debris and trash piled up along roads and sidewalks.<\/p>\n
Last week, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to double fines for illegal dumping to up to $5,000 and to attach those fines to the license plate of the dumper\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n
The City Council also approved a six-month pilot program using AI drone technology to track where illegal dumping is taking place so workers can clean it up more quickly.<\/p>\n
The city said the pilot program will include strong privacy protections and will be used to identify trash, not people.<\/p>\n
But a local community group called Oakland Privacy told NBC Bay Area it has reservations.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a pilot program, so time will tell if it works or if it turns out to be an intrusive annoyance that results in a lot of false alarms,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Oakland will announce new strategies Monday to address its ongoing problem with illegal dumping. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-276996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}