Typically, jail is reserved for violent or harmful people — however, in the case of city sanitation worker Kevin McGill, jail is apparently reserved for those who collect trash too early in the morning.
WSB-TV in Atlanta, GA reports that due to continued violations of the Sandy Springs ordinance, which only allows trash collection between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., the city has dropped fining the collection companies and now moves to jail the violators:
The city solicitor says he’s tried everything to get sanitation workers to stop coming to communities before 7 a.m. He says he’s tried fining the companies they work for, but it doesn’t work; so now he’s decided to haul [workers] off to jail.
McGill had been collecting trash around 5 a.m, which led the city prosecutor, Bill Riley, to ask for 30 days in jail:
“The solicitor said it’s automatic jail time. He didn’t want to hear nothing I had to say. I said it’s my first time,” sanitation worker Kevin McGill told WSB-TV’s Tom Jones.
McGill did not have an attorney at his original sentencing and, according to Fox News, received the maximum sentence. His new attorney believes the punishment does not fit the crime.
The chief prosecutor, however, is sticking to his guns:
“Fines don’t seem to work,” Riley said. “The only thing that seems to stop the activity is actually going to jail.”
Riley says 911 lights up when trash haulers come before 7 a.m.
Riley believes individuals, rather than the company, must be held responsible for their actions:
“The company doesn’t start that truck up. The company doesn’t drive that truck down the street,” Riley said.
McGill will be serving his time on the weekends, so he will be spending the next 14 weekends in jail.
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