Newbury Park High vandalized with swastika, profanities
The vandalism was reported around 8 p.m. on a wall near the administration building on North Reino Road campus, said Ventura County Sheriff's Capt. Cyrus Zadeh. He did not know who reported the incident.
Deputies with the Thousand Oaks station responded and found racial slurs, profanity and swastikas spray painted, he said. Deputies documented the graffiti as a hate crime and vandalism. The city of Thousand Oaks, which covers portions of Newbury Park, contracts its police services with the sheriff's office.
Zadeh said the report has since been handed over to investigators.
Reports of hateful graffiti have happened across Ventura County in recent years.
In June 2022, a Thousand Oaks elementary school was targeted with what Mark McLaughlin, superintendent of the Conejo Valley Unified School District, described at the time as "hateful speech."
In January 2019, a Jewish synagogue in Ventura was vandalized with a swastika. In August of the same year, a truck parked at an overflow lot of a Thousand Oaks car dealership was spray painted with a backward swastika and a the words "white power."
A spokeswoman for Conejo Valley Unified took questions about the incident Friday morning.
This story may be updated.
Stacie N. Galang is news director of the Ventura County Star. She can be reached at stacie.galang@vcstar.com or 805-437-0222.
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