Join Supervisor Dan Storck and Crime Solvers for a FREE shredding event!

When: Saturday, October 25, 2025
Where: Walt Whitman Middle School, 2500 Parkers Lane, Mount Vernon
Time: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
*All cars must be in line by 12 p.m. If trucks fill up before noon, we will have to turn cars away.*

Requirements

Accepted

• Residential material of a sensitive nature such as tax documents, financial records, etc. (Please recycle junk mail and magazines through your normal collection service.)
• Up to three, 15″ x 12″ x 10″ boxes of paper per vehicle.

Prohibited

• Binders of any type (3-ring, plastic, spiral, metal)
• Plastic document covers
• Wet or moist paper
• Hanging file folders with metal support bars
• Metal binder clips
• Electronic media including computer disks and diskettes or CDs
• Books, either hardback or paperback
• Credit cards
• Magazines, catalogs and newspapers (unless just the page with the address)
• Film or photographs

*Fairfax County will not shred documents for businesses - even if documents are delivered by an employee who is a County resident. These events are only for residents to destroy sensitive material they have from their home.*

This event is only open to Fairfax County residents - identification will be checked.

Crime Solvers is a community-oriented, non-profit organization that relies solely on donations to pay tipsters to help solve crimes. FCCS volunteers will be on hand to assist and will be asking for donations.