Overview
- City crews now run seven-day cleanups and are using newly purchased heavy equipment to remove large piles in East Oakland corridors.
- Officials plan camera and geo-location surveillance, closer monitoring of business garbage service, liens on violators, and referrals seeking harsher DA penalties.
- Hundreds gathered at Allen Temple Baptist Church demanding accountability and laws that impose real consequences for dumpers.
- Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley proposed an ordinance to hold vehicle owners liable and raise fines up to $10,000, with a vote expected soon.
- The city logged more than 25,000 illegal-dumping 311 reports in 2025, with health experts warning of injuries, toxic exposures, and mental-health harms, and property owners citing vacancies and lost tenants.