{"id":194127,"date":"2026-05-16T09:27:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/194127\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:27:39","slug":"erie-county-executive-vetoes-law-allowing-young-teens-to-hunt-big-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/194127\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County Executive vetoes law allowing young teens to hunt big game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Poloncarz just vetoed a new Erie County law that would have let 12 and 13-year-olds hunt big game (including deer) under adult supervision.<\/p>\n

BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz vetoed legislation Friday that would have allowed children ages 12 and 13 to hunt big game, including deer, under adult supervision<\/p>\n

The county executive cited safety concerns despite no recent hunting-related child deaths reported in New York.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Youth hunting bill introduced in Erie County Legislature<\/a><\/p>\n

The law had been passed by the Erie County Legislature and would have expanded hunting access to younger participants under the supervision of a licensed adult.<\/p>\n

In explaining his decision, Poloncarz said that while New York has not seen a death involving young hunters in recent years, deadly accidents involving children have occurred elsewhere. County legislators previously said they plan to seek a supermajority vote in an effort to override the veto.<\/p>\n

“If they override this veto and a child dies in the future, my conscience will be clear knowing I did everything I could to try to prevent that tragedy,” Poloncarz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Poloncarz just vetoed a new Erie County law that would have let 12 and 13-year-olds hunt big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-194127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194127","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=194127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}