{"id":321195,"date":"2026-06-26T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321195\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T22:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:11:13","slug":"desantis-signs-bill-to-improve-encounters-between-police-autism-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321195\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Signs Bill to Improve Encounters Between Police, Autism Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">Gov. DeSantis recently signed SB 418, requiring law enforcement officers to undergo specialized training for interacting with individuals on the autism spectrum. FOX 35&#8217;s Garrett Wymer spoke live via Zoom with Kim Spence, an Autism Disorder Specialist at the UCF Center for Autism and Related Disabilities, to break down the impact of the new law.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0June 26, 2026 3:50pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. DeSantis recently signed SB 418, requiring law enforcement officers to undergo specialized training for interacting with individuals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-321195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321195","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=321195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}