Prince George's County, MD Code Violation Reporting: Response Times (2026)

Sec. 13-279(a) requires the Department of the Environment to annually report data and provide analysis of environmental crimes generated by the Environmental Crimes Unit, though data on illegal-dumping complaints that the County Attorney deems confidential or pre-decisional is excluded, and the Annual Report is transmitted as part of the County's Ten-Year Solid Waste Management Plan. Sec. 13-279(b) goes further and specifically requires periodic updates, with a report at least once annually to the County Council and County Executive, covering violations, citations and arrests for Environmental Crimes, response times to complaints involving illegal dumping, the number and location of priority sites patrolled by each Environmental Crimes Unit team, and a list of known illegal dump sites countywide.

That reporting duty is fed by the site-assessment and prioritization process in Sec. 13-275, which draws on intelligence data, visual and aerial ground assessments performed by the Unit's own enforcement teams, and resident and stakeholder complaints to build a prioritized list of target areas; the Department of Public Works and Transportation is directed to give priority to cleaning up right-of-way sites the Unit refers to it, while DPIE prioritizes private-property sites. The ordinance sets no numeric response-time standard, such as a 24- or 48-hour window, for any individual complaint; the response-time figure exists only as an annual aggregate metric reported to elected officials.