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City Tables Anti-Graffiti Ordinance Again
The second version of the city of Galesburg's anti-graffiti ordinance still isn't ready to go.

Aldermen voted to table the second such proposal Monday night, mostly over the continued provision that businesses clean up their graffiti within 10 days or face sanctions.

At least two aldermen wanted that extended to 21-days, giving businesses time to hire someone to paint over any graffiti.

But either way, it still doesn't sit well with 3rd Ward Alderman Russell Fleming.

"It still makes the person whose the victim into the criminal if they don't clean it up," he says. "From my understanding from the city's point, the police gave us three years of statistics; graffitti does not seem to be an increasing problem based on those statistics."

Galesburg Police Chief David Christensen says of six arrests made for graffiti violations in 2010, two of those were referred to Knox County Teen Court.

Some aldermen still say, though, that regardless of what it says, the graffiti needs to be taken away.

It's not clear if aldermen will take up the ordinance again in two weeks.
10 05 11 by Newsroom
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