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Tyler Against Graffiti

To report graffiti please call (903) 535-TAG2 or email Solid Waste

Leave a detailed message with the location, block number and street. The graffiti will be cleaned within 72 hours, weather permitting. Studies show that immediate removal results in a nearly zero rate of reoccurrence.

Graffiti Hurts® - Care for Your Community is a grassroots community education program developed in 1996 by Keep America Beautiful, Inc. through a grant from The Sherwin-Williams Company. Visit www.graffitihurts.com

Tips to Prevent Graffiti

1. Upkeep

  • Make every effort to keep the appearance of a facility clean and neat.

2. Control Access

  • Incorporate shrubs, thorny plants, and vines to restrict vandal access
  • Add or improve lighting around the building to promote natural surveillance
  • Use fences, controlled entrance and exits, rails, and other barriers that discourage through traffic
  • Limit access to roofs by moving dumpsters away from walls and covering drainpipes to prevent vandals from scaling them

3. Step Up Security

  • Install a security camera
  • Organize a “Business Watch” with nearby merchants to look out for one another
  • Businesses may want to employ security personnel to monitor the property
  • Don’t allow an area that permits graffiti
  • Employ graffiti resistant materials or coatings on a chronically hit wall

4. Work with the Community

  • Create a community paint brush mural on a chronically hit wall
  • Print graffiti prevention messages on bags, sales flyers, tray liners, book covers, calendars, and other promotional items
  • Work with other merchants to organize and contribute to a “paint bank.” Paints, rollers, brushes, and other equipment from the bank are “borrowed” as needed; Ensure safe and environmentally appropriate storage of paint
  • Refrain from using graffiti images in ads or promoting graffiti in any way
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