{"id":2758,"date":"2008-06-30T06:16:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2008-06-30T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T23:35:56","slug":"no-grace-on-new-cell-phone-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"No Grace On New Cell Phone Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the O-side Police Department is giving residents a one-month grace period before enforcing the new &#8220;hands free cellphone law (<strong>California Vehicle Code <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmv.ca.gov\/pubs\/vctop\/d11\/vc23123.htm\" target=\"_blank\">23123<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmv.ca.gov\/pubs\/vctop\/d11\/vc23124.htm\" target=\"_blank\">23124<\/a><\/strong>)&#8221; that goes into effect tomorrow (July 1, 2008), Carlsbad officers are going to dive right in and begin handing out tickets right away, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/metro\/20080630-9999-1m30celllaw.html\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Carlsbad police Lt. Kelly Cain said his city&#8217;s officers will be given the same discretion in issuing tickets or warnings that they have with any other traffic violation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So remember to keep those cellphones below the window when you&#8217;re texting your way down Coast Highway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/metro\/20080630-9999-1m30celllaw.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the O-side Police Department is giving residents a one-month grace period before enforcing the new &#8220;hands free cellphone law (California Vehicle Code 23123 and 23124)&#8221; that goes into effect tomorrow (July 1, 2008), Carlsbad officers are going to dive right in and begin handing out tickets right away, according to a story in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}