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Councilman Uses Reward to Stop Dumping | Oakland News
Oakland Councilman Kevin Jenkins pulled off a viral takedown of illegal dumping by posting a video of a woman dumping furniture — and offering a $500 reward to anyone who could ID her. Within an hour, “Tiff” was found, though she reportedly blocked him after he asked her to retrieve her stuff. Jenkins paid out the reward — and the cleanup happened. But this case reflects a bigger problem: Oakland’s trash hauling costs are among the highest in the nation, pushing residents toward illegal dumping. Jenkins’s bold, social-media-driven approach may have worked fast — but can it scale to fix the…
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