{"id":194169,"date":"2026-05-16T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/194169\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:47:27","slug":"erie-county-executive-vetoes-law-allowing-young-teens-to-hunt-big-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/194169\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County Executive vetoes law allowing young teens to hunt big game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The county executive cited safety concerns despite no recent hunting-related child deaths reported in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/youth-hunting-bill-introduced-erie-230529647.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Youth hunting bill introduced in Erie County Legislature;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Youth hunting bill introduced in Erie County Legislature&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Youth hunting bill introduced in Erie County Legislature<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;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,&#8221; Poloncarz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz vetoed legislation Friday that would have allowed children ages 12 and 13 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[82059,136,142,138,137],"class_list":["post-194169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-adult-supervision","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194169","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=194169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}