AntiLitter Initiative

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Jacksonville Sheriffs Office
Anti-Litter Initiative
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Litter Statute403.413(4)(A)

• Dumping litter prohibited. Unless otherwise
  authorized by law or permit, it is unlawful for
  any person to dump litter in any manner or amount
  in or on any public highway, road, street, alley,
  or thoroughfare, including any portion of the
  right-of-way thereof, or any other public lands,
  except in containers or areas lawfully provided
  therefore. When any litter is thrown or
  discarded from a motor vehicle, the operator or
  owner of the motor vehicle, or both, shall be
  deemed in violation of this section.

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Penalties/Enforcement

• Any person who dumps litter
• Not exceeding 15 pounds in weight or 37 cubic
  feet in volume and not for commercial purposes
• Is guilty of a non criminal infraction,
  punishable by a civil penalty of 50.
• Exceeding 15 pounds in weight or 27 cubic feet in
  volume, but not exceeding 500 pounds in weight or
  100 cubic feet in volume and not for commercial
  purposes
• Is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree,
  punishable by the court.
• If violation occurs with use of a motor vehicle,
  upon a finding of guilt shall have 3 points
  recorded on the violators drivers license.
• Exceeding 500 pounds in weight or 100 cubic feet
  in volume or any commercial purpose or hazardous
  waste material
• Is guilty of a felony of the third degree,
  punishable by the court.

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Successful litter program involves 3 prongs

• EDUCATION

ENFORCEMENT
COLLECTION
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EDUCATION

• Formal program to inform JSO Officers of litter
  laws including roll call training videos and
  in-service training.

• Promote the Broken Windows concept
• Sweat the small Stuff
• Possibility of turning a routine minor traffic
  stop for littering into a felony stop with guns,
  drugs, and fugitives

• Appeal to the media for public service education
  spots in regards to
• Education about anti-litter
• Education that JSO will be taking proactive
  enforcement action

• Utilize JSO website to promote anti-litter
  message and warn citizens of
  increased enforcement.

• Signal 94 utilization for enforcement education.

• Discuss merits and logistics for incorporating
  anti-litter message into Officer Friendly program
  (similar format to other traffic safety messages
  currently being used).

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ENFORCEMENT

• Sheriffs Staff is directed to present and
  promote anti-littering message to enforcement
  personnel in positive manner

• Officers are directed to begin aggressively
  citing casual litter violators both pedestrian
  and vehicular

• Utilize covert directed patrol strategy in and
  around identified
• problem locations, including major roadway
  intersection and
• JTA bus stop locations

• Casual cigarette butt discards at major
  intersections is area of
• great concern, utilize covert enforcement
  deployments to address
• this issue.

• Utilize Community Service Officers (CSOs) to
  cite law violators

• Utilize C.O.P.S. unit to dedicate a minimum of
  4 hours per month at
• identifying a litter related problem in the
  Arlington effort and
• once identified take steps to remedy the
  problem.

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COLLECTION

• Utilize inmate labor to participate in organized
  pre-planned neighborhood clean-ups
  (partnership/joint efforts)

• Coordinate inmate labor crews with city public
  works and solid waste departments to augment
  short staffing concerns

• Utilize Community Service inmates on weekends to
  police areas of concerns. Store trash at
  central locations for pick up by solid waste
  division.

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Success Stories

• 9100 Atlantic Boulevard
• Deployment worked Operation Litterbug
• 38.50 man hours
• Results
• 1 Felony arrest (Cocaine)
• 1 Misdemeanor arrest (Marijuana)
• 2 Traffic citations (Traffic citations)
• 3 Warning citations (Throwing cigarette butts)
• 1 FIR (Field Investigation Report)
• 1 Vehicle seized

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Clean-Up of Transient Camp at 6090 Atlantic
Boulevard Worked by Officer Ardizzoni
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