By Lindsay Carey Staff Writer Community service for vandals will now be at the discretion of business owners, according to Town Councilor Dawn Miceli. “If they want the vandals once they are caught to have to serve community service as restitution for their crimes, we will be able to do that through our Southington Juvenile Review Board,” said Miceli, at a recent Town Council meeting. Depending on the offense, Southington youth under the age of 18 can go before the Juvenile Review Board if they have admitted guilt and if it is their first offense. Miceli and Sue Saucier, from Youth Services, worked with the review board to make it possible for property owners to request that the juvenile come and clean up the graffiti as a part of the ACT On It, the Anonymous Community Tip Line and anti-vandalism public awareness campaign Miceli launched earlier this year. “It makes sense for them to have to pay back the specific victim for the criminal activity they were involved in,” said Saucier. This expansion to the campaign is also meant to educate the vandals about the price of vandalism and how it impacts the business owner and community. “It’s a wonderful [...]
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