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Published on Friday, September 05, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
As the cost to paint over graffiti is expected to soar to $8 million this year for Los Angeles, a City Council member called Thursday for the adoption of a county program that makes parents responsible financially for cleaning up the tagging by their children.
Councilman Bernard Parks said he will introduce a proposal today to find out how to implement the program started by county Supervisor Gloria Molina.
"What we want is parents to take ownership of their kids," Molina said at a City Hall news conference. "A lot of times, parents are not aware of what their children are doing, and we want to get them involved to stop the behavior.
"Graffiti is a quality-of-life crime. It destroys neighborhoods and creates a sense of fear in the community."
And, she said, taggers have proven increasingly violent, killing two people this year who caught them in the act or tried to whitewash a spray-painted wall
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