Please check out the Keep Oakland Beautiful web site. They may be able to hook you up with other volunteers in your area. They supply our volunteer group with plastic and paper green waste bags, pickup sticks, safety vests and gloves. We have arranged area that haul away our bags from.

Oakland Running Festival and Homeless Encampment - Snow Park

By accident I might have found a possibly solution. If you search on "Noel Gallo" you will find that most complaints that say "Noel Gallo Team" or "from Noel Gallo Intern" seem to get responses from the Public Works folks. Try putting your local elected official's name in the complaint and see if that helps.

The problem with removing the homeless refuse is that one doesn't know what is garbage and what are personal items. State law requires posting a 72 hour notice to remove personal items to give the homeless time to respond.

Since the homeless have been moved out I imagine they were given 72 hours notice that they and their stuff would be removed. In any case, it is all litter that is left with the exception of two cell phones, one of which I powered up. It had a broken screen. The phones are still there.