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KINGS BEACH — It used to be behind the old Kentucky Fried Chicken building or the Brockway Movie theater in, but recently the Placer County Sheriff’s Office and community organizers have noticed less graffiti around neighborhoods west of the Nevada state line in Kings Beach.
“This is typically our slow season,” said Placer County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Allan Carter. “I don’t know what’s driving the phenomenon.”
In 2008 the PCSO has recorded and responded to 34 graffiti or vandalism incidents. The most recent was in November at the Donner Creek Mobile Home Park.
Since, Carter said the department has seen less graffiti activity.
“We’re focused on higher degrees of patrol and actively going after the people we apprehend,” Carter said. “We actively prosecute them and that’s sending the message that we are not going to tolerate it.”
Other programs and citizens in the area try to help prevent activity by promoting awareness and education.
Educating the youth
The Boys and Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe educates many of its members about graffiti and other gang-related activities, said Mindy Carbajal, director of Program Services.
“We talk to our own kids,” she said. “A lot of it is about respecting the club. We’re lucky to have such a beautiful facility. We tell them that it’s their club and they need to help keep it nice.”
Carbajal said the club has been vandalized in the past. Many of the times the vandals were caught and had to clean up the damage, she said.
“I think it shows the other kids what the consequences of graffiti is,” she said. “If they are doing clean up then hopefully it makes it harder for them to do it the next day.
Many times graffiti is linked with gang involvment, Carbajal said. In that case, the Boys and Girls Club offers many programs that educate young men and women about gangs and helps them build self-esteem and resistance to peer pressure, she said.
Community Involvement
In other cases members of the community have set up their own graffiti patrols to help spot and clean up the vandalism.
From 2000 to 2005, Kings Beach resident Cris Hennessey worked with a group of neighbors to look around the community for graffiti.
“It’s a neighborhood effort,” Hennessey said. “We kept an eye out on all of the Kings Beach grid.”
Hennessey said graffiti was much more prevalent when she was patrolling versus in recent years.
“It’s mellowed out,” she said. “I see how a lot of social services are really working with families in the long term instead of putting Band-Aids on the problems.”
She said that she’s also seen more people move to Kings Beach and buy property who are more invested in the community.
“They are invested in it — not just financially, they really care,” she said.
A new code
In addition to their usual law enforcement efforts, the Placer County Sheriff’s office is working with the North Tahoe Family Resource Center to draft a new graffiti abatement code.
Right now, when deputies find graffiti, they can document it and try to find the vandals. However, cleaning up the graffiti is the responsibility of the property owner, said Community Services Officer Kristen Mann.
“We’re trying to come up with a way to alleviate some of the cost from the property owners,” Mann said.
The code might also address the property of second home owners, where the homeowners may not be near to take care of the graffiti on private property.
In addition, the Sheriff’s office also goes out into the community to give presentations about graffiti to different groups, Mann said.
If you see graffiti in Kings Beach, call the Placer County Sherrif’s Office at (530) 581-6330.
Graffiti incidents by date in 2008
Feb. 19: Five street signs spray painted
Feb. 28: Tagging at Kings Beach Bathrooms
March 3: Multiple vandalism and gang spray paint to vehicles and buildings
March 30: Fence Tagged, Bear Street
March 30: East fencing wall of business tagged
March 30: Tagging, Steelhead Avenue
March 30: Tagging, Trout Street
March 30: Tagging, Deer Street
March 31: Graffiti on garage door, Steelhead Street
April 3: Graffiti, North Tahoe Public Utility District, Tahoe Vista
April 4: Graffiti on stop signs and rocks adjacent to Steelhead, Coon and Deer streets
April 4: Dumpsters tagged on Minnow Street
April 7: Graffiti at Tahoe Lake School
April 9: Graffit at Kings Beach Elementary School
April 14: Graffiti, laundry machines, walls and fence, Fox Street
April 18: Graffit, Rainbow Avenue
April 23: Graffiti on fence, Fox street
April 29: Graffit on bathrooms at Squaw Valley
May 4: Gang graffiti on bear bin, Canterbury Drive
May 23: Graffiti, Rainbow Avenue
May 27: Tagging at business on Rainbow Avenue
May 27: Building windows and van tagged, Steelhead Avenue
May 30: Tagging, Deer Street
June 11: Tagging, Dolly Varden Avenue
June 14: Tagging on stop sign and fence on Deer Street
July 18: Graffiti, Kings Beach State Beach
July 28: Tagging and bathrooms, Kings Beach boat ramp
Aug. 14: Graffiti, Squaw Valley Ski Area
Aug. 21: Back hoe and water tank graffiti, Ward Creek Boulevard
Aug. 27: Obscenities carved into wall of home, Korlebu Lane
Sept. 1: Water tank and pump station graffiti and damage, McKinney Creek Road
Nov. 11: Paint vandalism, Donner Creek Mobile Home Park
“This is typically our slow season,” said Placer County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Allan Carter. “I don’t know what’s driving the phenomenon.”
In 2008 the PCSO has recorded and responded to 34 graffiti or vandalism incidents. The most recent was in November at the Donner Creek Mobile Home Park.
Since, Carter said the department has seen less graffiti activity.
“We’re focused on higher degrees of patrol and actively going after the people we apprehend,” Carter said. “We actively prosecute them and that’s sending the message that we are not going to tolerate it.”
Other programs and citizens in the area try to help prevent activity by promoting awareness and education.
Educating the youth
The Boys and Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe educates many of its members about graffiti and other gang-related activities, said Mindy Carbajal, director of Program Services.
“We talk to our own kids,” she said. “A lot of it is about respecting the club. We’re lucky to have such a beautiful facility. We tell them that it’s their club and they need to help keep it nice.”
Carbajal said the club has been vandalized in the past. Many of the times the vandals were caught and had to clean up the damage, she said.
“I think it shows the other kids what the consequences of graffiti is,” she said. “If they are doing clean up then hopefully it makes it harder for them to do it the next day.
Many times graffiti is linked with gang involvment, Carbajal said. In that case, the Boys and Girls Club offers many programs that educate young men and women about gangs and helps them build self-esteem and resistance to peer pressure, she said.
Community Involvement
In other cases members of the community have set up their own graffiti patrols to help spot and clean up the vandalism.
From 2000 to 2005, Kings Beach resident Cris Hennessey worked with a group of neighbors to look around the community for graffiti.
“It’s a neighborhood effort,” Hennessey said. “We kept an eye out on all of the Kings Beach grid.”
Hennessey said graffiti was much more prevalent when she was patrolling versus in recent years.
“It’s mellowed out,” she said. “I see how a lot of social services are really working with families in the long term instead of putting Band-Aids on the problems.”
She said that she’s also seen more people move to Kings Beach and buy property who are more invested in the community.
“They are invested in it — not just financially, they really care,” she said.
A new code
In addition to their usual law enforcement efforts, the Placer County Sheriff’s office is working with the North Tahoe Family Resource Center to draft a new graffiti abatement code.
Right now, when deputies find graffiti, they can document it and try to find the vandals. However, cleaning up the graffiti is the responsibility of the property owner, said Community Services Officer Kristen Mann.
“We’re trying to come up with a way to alleviate some of the cost from the property owners,” Mann said.
The code might also address the property of second home owners, where the homeowners may not be near to take care of the graffiti on private property.
In addition, the Sheriff’s office also goes out into the community to give presentations about graffiti to different groups, Mann said.
If you see graffiti in Kings Beach, call the Placer County Sherrif’s Office at (530) 581-6330.
Graffiti incidents by date in 2008
Feb. 19: Five street signs spray painted
Feb. 28: Tagging at Kings Beach Bathrooms
March 3: Multiple vandalism and gang spray paint to vehicles and buildings
March 30: Fence Tagged, Bear Street
March 30: East fencing wall of business tagged
March 30: Tagging, Steelhead Avenue
March 30: Tagging, Trout Street
March 30: Tagging, Deer Street
March 31: Graffiti on garage door, Steelhead Street
April 3: Graffiti, North Tahoe Public Utility District, Tahoe Vista
April 4: Graffiti on stop signs and rocks adjacent to Steelhead, Coon and Deer streets
April 4: Dumpsters tagged on Minnow Street
April 7: Graffiti at Tahoe Lake School
April 9: Graffit at Kings Beach Elementary School
April 14: Graffiti, laundry machines, walls and fence, Fox Street
April 18: Graffit, Rainbow Avenue
April 23: Graffiti on fence, Fox street
April 29: Graffit on bathrooms at Squaw Valley
May 4: Gang graffiti on bear bin, Canterbury Drive
May 23: Graffiti, Rainbow Avenue
May 27: Tagging at business on Rainbow Avenue
May 27: Building windows and van tagged, Steelhead Avenue
May 30: Tagging, Deer Street
June 11: Tagging, Dolly Varden Avenue
June 14: Tagging on stop sign and fence on Deer Street
July 18: Graffiti, Kings Beach State Beach
July 28: Tagging and bathrooms, Kings Beach boat ramp
Aug. 14: Graffiti, Squaw Valley Ski Area
Aug. 21: Back hoe and water tank graffiti, Ward Creek Boulevard
Aug. 27: Obscenities carved into wall of home, Korlebu Lane
Sept. 1: Water tank and pump station graffiti and damage, McKinney Creek Road
Nov. 11: Paint vandalism, Donner Creek Mobile Home Park
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