How is skateboarding on private property a crime?

It largely depends on who owns the property, whether the property is intended for skateboarding, and whether the skateboarders have permission to use it. read more

3. Skateboarding on private property is now a crime. Skateboards damage surfaces. I am personally for skating in public spaces and that all benches should be skateable, all skatestoppers should be removed. For private property it could be a little different, though I would really like my own property to be skated on the regs. read more

More than 25 years after I met and fell in love with my skateboarder boyfriend-now-husband, skateboarding is still a crime. When he takes our sons Zach, 16, and Skyler, 13, skateboarding in our home town of Evanston, just north of Chicago, they still are met with the possibility of tickets and fines up to $500 for skateboarding in the wrong place. read more