By Khalida Sarwari
San Jose’s Clean Slate Tattoo Removal program will graduate 34 people on Thursday as part of the city’s effort to support high-risk and gang-impacted youth between 14 and 25 years old, according to the organization.
Initiated by the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force in 1994, the 10-week program offers to remove gang-related tattoos on the neck, hands, wrists, face and other exposed parts of the body in exchange for the participant’s commitment to education, employment and community service activities, according to the City of San Jose.
The graduation will take place at 6 p.m. in the basement meeting room of the Valley Specialty Center at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center at 751 Bascom Ave.
A tour of the new tattoo removal clinic and facility will take place prior to the graduation at 5 p.m.