Comments on: A blue chalk flower on your front step – graffiti?? http://www.askthejudge.info/a-blue-chalk-flower-on-your-front-step-graffiti/152/ Answers for teens about the law Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:21:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jennifer Jones http://www.askthejudge.info/a-blue-chalk-flower-on-your-front-step-graffiti/152/comment-page-1/#comment-20057 Jennifer Jones Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:27:14 +0000 http://askthejudge.info/a-blue-chalk-flower-on-your-front-step-graffiti/152/#comment-20057 Why do they call it "sidewalk chalk" if it may be illegal to use it as advertised? Should it come with a warning? Our fascist police chief says the ground is not the ground, and public property does not belong to the public. I am looking for any free speech case law that might apply in AZ for an article I'm writing regarding copblock.org "Chalk the Police Day"Key phrase in #5 is "except the ground"!http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/ars/13/01602.htm&Title=13&DocType=ARS <strong>Thanks for your comments, Jennifer. Because every state's criminal damage laws differ slightly, whether chalking in Arizona could be considered criminal damage may depend on a strict interpretation of the statute as well as the legislative intent. It seems unlikely that they intended for sidewalk chalk used on the ground to constitute criminal damage. Please send us a link to your article once it's published. Thank you. (This is information only - not legal advice.) Why do they call it “sidewalk chalk” if it may be illegal to use it as advertised? Should it come with a warning?

Our fascist police chief says the ground is not the ground, and public property does not belong to the public. I am looking for any free speech case law that might apply in AZ for an article I’m writing regarding copblock.org “Chalk the Police Day”Key phrase in #5 is “except the ground”!http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/ars/13/01602.htm&Title=13&DocType=ARS
Thanks for your comments, Jennifer. Because every state’s criminal damage laws differ slightly, whether chalking in Arizona could be considered criminal damage may depend on a strict interpretation of the statute as well as the legislative intent. It seems unlikely that they intended for sidewalk chalk used on the ground to constitute criminal damage. Please send us a link to your article once it’s published. Thank you.
(This is information only – not legal advice.)

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