{"id":195536,"date":"2026-03-17T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195536\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:30:09","slug":"authorities-say-spring-break-in-south-florida-going-smoothly-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195536\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities say spring break in South Florida going smoothly so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>Police have active presence across South Florida&#8217;s popular spring break locations <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A cloudy day did not stop Spring Break fun across South Florida on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Along Fort Lauderdale Beach, police officers were out among the crowds, with both state and local law enforcement beefing up their presence in plain sight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward County Schools heard kids might have been planning to flock to the beach for a party, so a notice went out on Instagram warning kids and parents it wasn\u2019t a school sanctioned event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Still, police officers were not taking any chances. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With a few more days of spring break to go, police hope the clouds and any potential trouble float away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In Miami Beach, a public campaign a few months back to welcome back spring breakers focused on fitness and families instead of just booze and bikinis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say increased visibility appears to be working so far. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Miami Beach police, there have been 168 arrests so far, which is down 20% from last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers say vigilance and warning people to follow the rules is paying off.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM Police have active presence across South Florida&#8217;s popular spring break locations FORT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-195536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}