{"id":156327,"date":"2026-04-03T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156327\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:50:43","slug":"lawmaker-pushes-for-teenagers-to-hunt-deer-in-erie-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156327\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmaker pushes for teenagers to hunt deer in Erie County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new push to allow more teenagers to go hunting deer in Erie County.<\/p>\n<p>Erie County Legislator Frank Todaro presented a new local law he is backing to the legislature on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, New York state allows 12- and 13-year-olds to hunt deer when accompanied by a mentor, but each individual county has to opt in, and Erie County currently does not.<\/p>\n<p>They are the only county in upstate New York that has not opted in.<\/p>\n<p>The state DEC, in a recent report, backs Todaro&#8217;s push.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DEC, there have been zero hunting-related incidents involving 12- and 13-year-olds in the past five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a new push to allow more teenagers to go hunting deer in Erie County. Erie County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1612,8255,1611,1610,136,138,137,139,50,1592],"class_list":{"0":"post-156327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-app-in-the-community","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-community-news","12":"tag-erie","13":"tag-erie-headlines","14":"tag-erie-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}