{"id":251712,"date":"2026-04-04T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251712\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:41:09","slug":"police-to-target-hands-free-law-violations-in-april-enforcement-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251712\/","title":{"rendered":"Police To Target Hands-Free Law Violations In April Enforcement Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Emeryville Police Department will conduct a traffic enforcement campaign next month focused on drivers suspected of violating California&#8217;s hands-free cell phone law.<\/p>\n<p>The enforcement operation is scheduled for April 6 through April 13, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Under state law, drivers are prohibited from holding a phone or other electronic communications device while operating a vehicle, including while talking, texting, or using apps.<\/p>\n<p>Violations can result in a fine, and a second offense within 36 months of a prior conviction can add a point to a driver&#8217;s record, according to the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Police urged motorists to pull over to a safe location if they need to make a call or enter directions and to silence or store phones out of reach before driving.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 Bay City News, Inc.  All rights reserved.  Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited. Bay City News is a 24\/7 news service covering the greater Bay Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Emeryville Police Department will conduct a traffic enforcement campaign next month focused on drivers suspected of violating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-251712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}