{"id":339339,"date":"2026-07-14T06:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339339\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T06:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:43:08","slug":"north-central-florida-law-enforcement-participates-in-9th-operation-southern-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339339\/","title":{"rendered":"North Central Florida law enforcement participates in 9th Operation Southern Slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Law enforcement officers across North Central Florida are participating in a multi-state, multi-agency crackdown on speeders. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is the 9th year for Operation Southern Slowdown. It runs through Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last year, officials say nearly 53,000 citations and warnings for speeding were issued across the five participating states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/07\/12\/operation-southern-slow-down-increases-patrols-florida-roads-this-week\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Operation Southern Slow Down increases patrols on Florida roads this week<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Law enforcement officers across North Central Florida are participating in a multi-state, multi-agency crackdown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31996,14911,28,30,29,1598,4735,139509,139510],"class_list":["post-339339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-agency","tag-citations","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-law-enforcement","tag-ncfl","tag-operation-southern-slowdown","tag-speeders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339339","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=339339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}