{"id":43612,"date":"2019-06-30T22:27:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T02:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43612"},"modified":"2019-06-30T22:27:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T02:27:12","slug":"you-can-by-pulled-you-over-for-texting-while-driving-starting-monday-july-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/06\/you-can-by-pulled-you-over-for-texting-while-driving-starting-monday-july-1\/","title":{"rendered":"You can by pulled you over for texting while driving starting Monday July 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D-RSVupXsAATmM3.jpg?fit=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D-RSVupXsAATmM3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D-RSVupXsAATmM3-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D-RSVupXsAATmM3-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D-RSVupXsAATmM3-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The era of answering emails and texts and looking up recipes\nand posting to Instagram and liking friends\u2019 Facebook posts on your phone while\ndriving without getting a ticket is over in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sunshine State, until now a bit of a Wild West compared\nto other states when it comes to phone use while driving, on Monday will become\na place where cops can pull you over solely for texting and driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now, texting and driving was not a primary offense,\nmeaning that police could cite drivers for texting and driving only if they had\nbeen pulled over for another infraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the new law passed by the Florida Legislature and\nsigned by Gov. Ron DeSantis, law enforcement will now have the authority to\npull over drivers just for texting and driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a bit of a grace period. While a texting and driving\nviolation would get you a $30 fine for a first offense plus court costs (which\ncould jack up the total cost to about $108) and $60 for a second, officers will\nbe issuing only warnings until January. Then, officers will began issuing\nactual citations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The law is seen by some as a step in the right direction in\nterms of road safety, but it\u2019s also been criticized by others as not going far\nenough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The era of answering emails and texts and looking up recipes and posting to Instagram and liking friends\u2019 Facebook posts on your phone while driving without getting a ticket is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}