State bill announces car registration holds for illegal dumping violators
- Mar 5
- 1 min read
Legislation announced this week by East Bay leaders aims to prevent illegal dumping by putting a hold on offenders' car registration.
The bill from State Senator Jesse Arreguín would put a car registration hold on people with outstanding fines for illegal dumping.
It's similar to how unpaid parking citations are enforced.
Vincent Williams is the founder of the Urban Compassion Project, which removes illegally dumped trash in Oakland. He says the bill isn't strong enough.
"We're gonna wait until people have to go to register their vehicles to hold them accountable? Instead of just putting people in jail and letting them know that this is not OK in our city?" Williams said. "Or towing their vehicle, or seizing it, not even towing it, seizing it as a city and saying, 'You know what, you don't have to go to jail, but now you don't have this vehicle anymore.'"
Arreguín says he expects the bill to reach the Senate floor by June.
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