{"id":17095,"date":"2025-10-27T23:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/17095\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:17:18","slug":"spartanburg-city-council-votes-on-first-reading-of-hate-crime-ordinance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/17095\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartanburg City Council votes on first reading of hate crime ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SPARTANBURG, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; Spartanburg City Council voted on the first reading of a hate crime ordinance on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The ordinance would make intimidating or injuring anyone based on ethnicity or race a separate offense. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">South Carolina is one of only two states not to have a statewide hate crime law, but several cities have passed their own versions, including Greenville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City council passed the first reading of the ordinance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with FOX Carolina. For more free content like this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\">download our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WHNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPARTANBURG, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; Spartanburg City Council voted on the first reading of a hate crime ordinance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[990,3460,128,130,129,3461],"class_list":["post-17095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-city-council","tag-hate-crime-ordinance","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-spartanburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17095","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=17095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}