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The city of Santa Ana recently dropped this diagram as part of a campaign to educate folks on how to spot if their child could be a 'tagger'. What happens when you swap Your child with ID student:

* Your child The ID student frequently wears baggy pants or carries a large backpack. These are used to carry cans of spray-paint, various colors and types of magic markers, etching tools, slap tags and cameras to take photos of their taggings. The clothes and backpack may be paint stained.

* Your child The ID student has large quantities of magic markers in various colors, types and sizes, spray-paint cans, shoe polish containers, or dot markers used to mark bingo cards.

* Your child The ID student has or carries tools used for etching glass or mirror surfaces such as spark plug porcelain, drill bits, screwdrivers with a sharpened tip, small rocks, or any other type of sharp instrument.

*Your child The ID student stays out late at night or has taken to sneaking out of the house.

* Your child The ID student frequently has paint or marker residue on their fingertips.

* Your child The ID student has or carries a black artist notebook that contains tagging or drawings. These books are called "bibles" or "piece books."

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