Residents near the Freeport Bridge in Sacramento County are calling on local officials to install flock cameras to address illegal dumping in their community. Eight-year-old Quinn Newton has been actively cleaning up trash in the area. “It’s just a bunch of dumping basically and like I swear every day…It’s sad,” Quinn said. The Freeport community has been dealing with illegal dumping for years, according to Quinn’s father, Travis Newton. “This has been going on ever since we’ve lived in the community about 12 years, and it seems to be getting progressively worse,” Travis said. Travis regularly picks up trash along the roadside. “I personally probably pull over and pick up trash, like, twice a week, put them into bags and then put them on the side of the road for Caltrans to come pick up,” he said. Quinn decided to take their efforts a step further by starting a petition. “So I thought, why not do a petition for this?” Quinn said. The Newton family’s petition aims to address what they see as a lack of enforcement in the area. “There’s a lack of enforcement, and that’s why we’ve started a petition to get cameras out in this area. If you go right across the bridge, there’s three cameras. There’s huge signs that say no dumping and it’s the enforcement piece,” Travis said. With more than 250 signatures and outreach to county officials, the family hopes to hold litterers accountable. “If it happened in the middle of the night, we can just check and say, see who did it and like, then people will stop dumping because they’re scared of that,” Quinn said. Their message to the community is simple: “Go pick it up,” Quinn said. On May 23, the Freeport community will partner with Elk Grove anti-trash volunteers for a deeper cleanup of the area.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel

FREEPORT, Calif. —

Residents near the Freeport Bridge in Sacramento County are calling on local officials to install flock cameras to address illegal dumping in their community.

Eight-year-old Quinn Newton has been actively cleaning up trash in the area.

“It’s just a bunch of dumping basically and like I swear every day…It’s sad,” Quinn said.

The Freeport community has been dealing with illegal dumping for years, according to Quinn’s father, Travis Newton.

“This has been going on ever since we’ve lived in the community about 12 years, and it seems to be getting progressively worse,” Travis said.

Travis regularly picks up trash along the roadside.

“I personally probably pull over and pick up trash, like, twice a week, put them into bags and then put them on the side of the road for Caltrans to come pick up,” he said.

Quinn decided to take their efforts a step further by starting a petition.

“So I thought, why not do a petition for this?” Quinn said.

The Newton family’s petition aims to address what they see as a lack of enforcement in the area.

“There’s a lack of enforcement, and that’s why we’ve started a petition to get cameras out in this area. If you go right across the bridge, there’s three cameras. There’s huge signs that say no dumping and it’s the enforcement piece,” Travis said.

With more than 250 signatures and outreach to county officials, the family hopes to hold litterers accountable.

“If it happened in the middle of the night, we can just check and say, see who did it and like, then people will stop dumping because they’re scared of that,” Quinn said.

Their message to the community is simple: “Go pick it up,” Quinn said.

On May 23, the Freeport community will partner with Elk Grove anti-trash volunteers for a deeper cleanup of the area.

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