I remove them whenever I see they are placed illegally. If you wait for the City to fine the politicians, or remove the signs you'll be waiting forever.

We've received your issue and will address it as soon as we can. Thanks.

If you just pull them up and leave them in place, is that legal?

If PW isn't doing it's job, we should be able to do so.

I just removed them, and placed them in the trash. There were 4 signs on West Park Avenue on the Park side of the street and 2 on Elm St (on public property) between Hobart and West Park

Also lining the strip at Helene Grant School on Goffe St. Flooding the city with these signs is rather obnoxious.

Same problem on the Yale ave side of the park. Contacted the police and someone from the harp campaign about it. No response from either. Apparently the rules don't apply to certain people...

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I would take them down and leave them in a pile. No one can accuse you of stealing them. There are more S-C-F complaints about Harp signs than anybody else. Meanwhile, on the East Shore we're dealing with her smear campaign. Anything goes with those people....

One of Toni Harp's personal attorneys is Timothy Yolen. He is the commissioner of LCI. That is how she controls some of her corrupt power in New Haven. that is why LCI turns a blind eye and says nothing.

LCI does not enforce law, does not clean the streets, does not empty garbage cans. These inspectors are supposed to take care of quality of life issues, and illegal stuff, like this issue. It is wrong. Corruption is sad.

Call Attorney Timothy Yolen, his office in downtown New Haven at 700 state street. He did personal closings for Toni Harp in 2011. Tell him that as Commissioner for LCI, he needs to avoid looking improper, and make LCI do their job.

Parks and DPW have removed the signs from the primary. If you notice any that we missed, or new ones for the general, please open as a new issue so we can respond (use "Public Space, Streets and Drains" for ones in the tree belt, and "Parks Issue" for ones in a park if you can). All signs removed are held at DPW or Parks headquarters for a period in case the campaigns want to pick them up.

As a general rule, city agencies do not remove signs the day before an election or election day (and since election days are on a Tuesday, that means we usually don't get them from the weekend before). Most campaigns put signs in the rights-of-way right before election day, and since it takes us more than one day to remove all the signs that get put out, we could not ensure we are being fair as we start to remove them. Between now and Nov 4th, however, let us know on SCF and we'll try to remove improperly placed signs.

@new haven archer - LCI does not have responsibility for removing signs. DPW and Parks do, which are both departments I oversee (I do not oversee LCI). "Corruption" is a loaded term to be throwing around, but you should at least direct your accusations at me.

Thanks for fixing this issue!

Thanks for fixing this issue!