{"id":116879,"date":"2023-10-06T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=116879"},"modified":"2023-10-06T07:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T11:52:35","slug":"ohios-distracted-driving-law-now-in-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/ohios-distracted-driving-law-now-in-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio&#8217;s Distracted Driving Law Now in Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>No more warnings! You can now be pulled over and ticketed if you are texting and driving. This is now a primary offense. The fine can be up to $150 for a first offense, then up to $250 for a subsequent offense. Learn more in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wosu.org\/2023-10-05\/ohios-new-distracted-driving-law-is-now-in-effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/news.wosu.org\/2023-10-05\/ohios-new-distracted-driving-law-is-now-in-effect&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1696639451249000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0cFz4EnrCvM6YdiPcLtSJZ\">this article <\/a>by OWU journalism instructor and Statehouse News Bureau reporter Jo Ingles!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: University Communications<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No more warnings! You can now be pulled over and ticketed if you are texting and driving. This is now a primary offense. The fine can be up to $150 for a first offense, then up to $250 for a subsequent offense. Learn more in this article by OWU journalism instructor and Statehouse News Bureau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116902,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116879\/revisions\/116902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}