{"id":322660,"date":"2026-05-19T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322660\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:29:08","slug":"sacramento-pd-launch-click-it-or-ticket-seat-belt-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322660\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento PD launch Click It or Ticket seat belt campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779186548_519_SAC generic police still chyron frame.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"\" alt=\"Police tape at crime scene\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Police Department launched a \u201cClick It or Ticket\u201d enforcement campaign Monday to encourage drivers and passengers to buckle up through the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign runs through May 31 and coincides with a national enforcement effort led by the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/campaign\/click-it-or-ticket\">National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the two-week campaign, Sacramento police <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sacpolice\/status\/2056182757014094182?s=46\">will deploy additional officers<\/a> to look for drivers and passengers who are not wearing seat belts, as well as children who are not properly secured in age-appropriate safety seats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur priority is protecting the people in our community,\u201d Sacramento Police Department Sgt. Anna Mahoney said in a statement. \u201cWe want every trip \u2014 short or long \u2014 to end safely, so please buckle up, every time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to NHTSA, 780 unrestrained motorists were killed in crashes in 2024. The agency also reported that 24 unrestrained children were killed in crashes in 2022, a 4.3% increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The enforcement campaign continues through the Memorial Day weekend travel period and is funded by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Traffic Safety said California\u2019s seat belt use rate increased 3.5 percentage points between 2005, when the campaign began, and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>DUI checkpoint leads to two arrests<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento police also reported Monday results from a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315759085.html\">DUI checkpoint held Friday on Del Paso Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officers screened more than 650 vehicles, conducted 64 driver\u2019s license checks, issued 18 citations to suspended or unlicensed drivers and made two DUI arrests, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>Police reminded drivers to plan ahead by using a ride-share service, calling a friend or staying where they are if they have been drinking.<\/p>\n<p>The department thanked volunteers, chaplains, cadets, the Sacramento County Crime Lab, Sacramento County Probation and the Los Rios Police Department for assisting with the checkpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Police Department launched a \u201cClick It or Ticket\u201d enforcement campaign Monday to encourage drivers and passengers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-322660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322660","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=322660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}