{"id":56621,"date":"2023-12-22T12:54:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T17:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56621"},"modified":"2023-12-22T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T21:55:32","slug":"a-times-california-police-required-to-state-reason-for-traffic-stops-before-questioning-drivers-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56621","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: California police required to state reason for traffic stops before questioning drivers next year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LA Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2023-12-20\/california-police-required-to-state-reason-for-traffic-stops-before-questioning-drivers-next-year\">California police required to state reason for traffic stops before questioning drivers next year<\/a> by Noah Goldberg (&#8220;Starting Jan. 1, California police officers will have to tell drivers why they\u2019ve been pulled over before questioning them on any subject. The new law stems from a state Assembly bill passed in 2022 that will take effect in the new year. The law, written by Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena), seeks to curb &#8216;pretextual stops,&#8217; in which police use a minor infraction \u2014 sometimes not mentioned to the driver at the start of the interaction \u2014 as the basis to pull over a vehicle and investigate other possible crimes.&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times: California police required to state reason for traffic stops before questioning drivers next year by Noah Goldberg (&#8220;Starting Jan. 1, California police officers will have to tell drivers why they\u2019ve been pulled over before questioning them on any &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56624,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56621\/revisions\/56624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}