The University of Arizona released a statement on Monday reversing its policy on arresting students for using chalk.
Two arrests have been made since a budget protest last week.
The statement said UAPD will no longer cite students for criminal damage for using chalk on surfaces other than the ground and sidewalk.
According to the statement, UA President Robert Shelton wants students to be sent to the Dean of Students Office and these incidents to be considered as code-of-conduct violations.
UAPD is dismissing the charges against two students who were previously cited. They will be referred to the Dean of Students Office, the statement said.
The statement was released after Evan Lisull, 21, reported that he was cited for criminal damage Monday .
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Lisull, a senior studying economics and political science, said the officer who cited him said the UA Police Department had received a call from a witness who had seen Lisull using chalk to mark up the base of a statue near the administration building at 6:30 a.m.
Lisull denied using chalk on a statue, though he said he made "several chalk drawings elsewhere, all on the sidewalk," as a response to the arrest of Jacob Miller last week.
Miller, a 24-year-old graduate student, was arrested and cited for criminal damage and interfering with an educational facility during a campus rally protesting cuts to public education, said Sgt. Juan Alvarez, a UAPD spokesman.
Lisull said his interpretation of state law is that using chalk is not considered criminal damage.
