{"id":279214,"date":"2026-04-21T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:05:07","slug":"oakland-leaders-praise-amended-anti-dumping-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279214\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland leaders praise amended anti-dumping ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland\u2019s political leaders are celebrating the passage of a new ordinance that increases penalties for illegal dumping and bolsters efforts to clean up city streets.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance more than doubles the fines for dumping trash on Oakland streets, parks, sidewalks and other spaces to $1,500 for the first offense, $3,000 for the second and $5,000 for the third.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if a person is caught dumping illegally multiple times on private property within a 10-year period, they could face triple the initial civil penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments to Oakland&#8217;s illegal dumping law were sponsored by Mayor Barbara Lee and City Councilmember Zac Unger and passed unanimously by the City Council last week.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance also seeks to prevent illegal dumpers from pinning their crimes on the city&#8217;s homeless residents by making it clear that garbage generated by people living in encampments isn&#8217;t defined as illegal dumping under the new rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland\u2019s political leaders are celebrating the passage of a new ordinance that increases penalties for illegal dumping and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-279214","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\/279214","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=279214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}