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Deputy director: better supervision and more ranger staffing part of explanation for spike in park citations
Summary
Deputy Director Jared Rogers told the Parks Board that redesigned code-of-conduct visuals show rising trespass notices and citations; staff said increased ranger staffing and supervision, plus clearer citation practices, account for some of the uptick while board members pushed for better cross-agency data and summer outreach planning.
Deputy Director Jared Rogers presented a redesigned quarterly code-of-conduct report to the City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Board, showing monthly trend lines for 2025 and the first three months of 2026 and a new breakdown of the top violation types that lead to trespass notices and citations.
Rogers said the new charts — now displayed by month rather than by week — make trends easier to see and highlighted that the top five violations producing trespasses were loitering after closure, drugs or drug paraphernalia, prohibited devices, unlawful conduct (a residual electronic‑log category), and alcohol‑related incidents. He described the vertical scale on one graph as logarithmic to preserve visibility across wide ranges.
“Educational contacts are our first tool, but you can also see where citations and trespasses…
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