Garbage Trucks Now Have AI Cameras to Score Your House and Clock Code Violations –A company called City Detect is outfitting municipalities with cameras to give homes a “blight score,” effectively turning a whole city into an HOA. | 15 Sep 2026 | The city of Dallas, Texas, armed its trash collection trucks with AI-powered cameras earlier this year. This month, the NBC station down there did an investigation and discovered that they’re being used to assign “blight scores” to homes and send residents warning letters about things like grass height and dirty chimneys. Basically, we now have the technology to turn the entire country into an HOA. NBC 5 Investigates found that “artificial intelligence identified at least one possible code violation on more than 21,000 properties,” and then shared some examples of things that were flagged: “Lawn, Grass Height, Sidewalk, Debris.” The company that operates the cameras is called City Detect, and its tendrils extend way beyond Dallas. The City Detect tech is working in at least three other states besides Texas.