Finding 26-16
The City of Oakland recovers a low percentage of civil penalties imposed on illegal dumping offenders through administrative citations.
Jury report: Illegal Dumping in Oakland: City Buried Under Trash · PDF page 35
Permanent linkOfficial response
City of Oakland City Administration and City Council
Agrees and attributes low collections largely to disconnected citation records, describing planned integration of tablets, software and Finance collection work under the action plan.
Read official response · PDF page 10Explicit agreement, specific causal explanation and an identified action plan; collection improvement is not verified.
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.