Things You Can Do

Ten things you can do to prevent graffiti. Ten things you can do to prevent graffiti. Please help keep our neighborhoods graffiti free. Graffiti hurts everyone!
1. Get educated! Learn about graffiti, and how it impacts your community.

2. Make a difference! Join other residents and the City of Madera and become an "Empowered Citizen" volunteer. Call (559) 232-9758 to find out how to get more involved.

3. Report graffiti to the Hotline (559) 661-5119 and the Madera Police Department.

4. Remove graffiti within 24-48 hours of its appearance.

5. Get more involved with our youth. In most places the majority of graffiti comes from people 12-25 years of age.

6. Partner with the City of Madera to organize a "paint-out" in your neighborhood to remove graffiti.

7. Ask the City of Madera for a Graffiti Kit and coordinate a graffiti awareness campaign in your neighborhood.

8. Plant trees or other greenery near a graffiti plagued wall. This will help prevent access.

9. Install lighting in areas that are dark and often hit with graffiti. Pick up trash and keep your neighborhood clean!

10. Go to the National anti-graffiti website at www.GraffitiHurts.org to learn more about what other communities are doing to keep their communities clean.

Click here to download our Anti-Graffiti Brochure (English)
Click here to download our Anti-Graffiti Brochure (Spanish)

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Graffiti Hotline & Clean-Up:

For more information, please contact Graffiti Hotline & Clean-Up: (559) 661-5119

This information was developed in conjunction with the City of Oxnard, CA.