A man walks past a wall in Seattle that is tagged with graffiti on May 29, 2025. (KOMO NEWS) Listen. Share. TOPICS: Graffiti Seattle Surge Incidents Community 2025 Uplift Northwest Street art.

Spokesman James Poling said the agency spent $2,044,000 in graffiti abatement since 2020, adding that crews used 600 gallons of gray paint and spent more than $100,000 buffing over graffiti in the ...

The City of Seattle is considering suing graffiti taggers for damages caused by their tagging. Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison proposed the legislation to the city council Tuesday. If passed, ...

SEATTLE — Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison has filed an appeal of a federal judge's injunction that is currently blocking city prosecutors from charging people under the municipal graffiti law ...

“Even though he was warned many times of the dangers and illegality of doing graffiti on the street, like most teenagers, I don’t think he fully grasped the reality or the danger of that,&#82… ...

In a statement, Davison said in part, "the people of Seattle won an important victory today when the Ninth Circuit upheld our city’s right to enforce our laws against graffiti property destruction.

The $940,000 anti-graffiti plan is outlined in Mayor Harrell's budget proposal, which the Seattle City Council will vote on next month. The proposal aims to encourage more public street art in ...

We must have as many tools as possible to protect neighbors and residents impacted by graffiti.” Seattle’s municipal ordinance 12A.08.020 broadly criminalizes property crimes like graffiti, which ...

Mayor Bruce Harrell is relaunching a graffiti cleanup program, this time targeted at downtown Seattle and the Chinatown-International District. “We know that graffiti and tagging not only ...

A s temperatures climb, Seattle is experiencing a significant increase in graffiti incidents, with reports indicating more than 12,000 cases so far this year. This surge comes ahead of what is ...