Atlanta Adult Entertainment: Atlanta could use cameras to catch trash dumpers
Posted on March 4th, 2010 in Atlanta adult entertainment
Shelby and his staff are also talking to the city’s Law Department about potential privacy issues. There’s no timetable yet.
Atlanta is not the only government to consider surveillance cameras to nail illegal dumpers.
Boston has such a program as part of its illegal dumping task force. Some counties in California, like San Bernardino, also use cameras to catch people illegally dumping trash. Civil libertarians in that state have complained that local governments there have not determined the program’s effectiveness.
The Atlanta City Council has scheduled a work session for Wednesday to discuss code enforcement, which has confounded city officials in recent years.
The rise in mortgage foreclosures in metro Atlanta has resulted in more abandoned homes and more places for people to dump unwanted items, particularly in the city’s poorer neighborhoods. Those abandoned properties also have become home to drug dealers, vagrants, prostitutes and criminals, community leaders say.
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