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New Approach To Eliminating Graffiti: City Attorney Files Civil Injunction Against MTA ? California Penal Code Sections 594 & 166

By Walin & Klarich

As recently reported in the L.A. Times, the Los Angeles City Attorney?s Office is pursuing a new tactic to eliminate tagging and vandalism of public property. The ?Metro Transit Assassins? (MTA) are the most notorious tagging crew in L.A. and are responsible for hundreds of acts of vandalism. Last year, seven of their members were charged with a half-mile long ?MTA? scrawl on concrete banks of the Los Angeles River. To further prevent these acts from recurring, the city attorney filed civil injunctions on ten members. This would bar them from associating with each other, institute a mandatory curfew, and prevent them from possessing graffiti tools. The civil suit also seeks $250,000 in civil penalties and $3.7 million in damages for the 500 documented incidents of graffiti vandalism...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on June 29, 2010 (boomark / email).