{"id":282686,"date":"2026-09-10T03:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282686\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T03:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:48:12","slug":"pennsylvania-police-issue-guidance-on-skill-game-machine-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282686\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania police issue guidance on skill game machine compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania police issue guidance on skill game machine compliance<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789012092_469_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Austin Boley\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Pennsylvania State Police are providing guidance to businesses operating skill game machines to help them comply with licensing requirements before the October 14 deadline.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Video above: Top news stories, weather forecast.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The guidance follows a state Supreme Court ruling that skill game devices are considered &#8220;slot machines&#8221; and require a license issued by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. Businesses that fail to comply could face criminal prosecution starting next month.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Police strongly recommend that businesses discuss the removal of these machines with distributors or vendors who may own them.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;If a distributor or vendor is unwilling to remove machines, the business is encouraged to reach out to police,&#8221; officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania police issue guidance on skill game machine compliance , Pa. \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police are providing guidance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,9414,30,29,1224,6429,1979,16121],"class_list":["post-282686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-gaming-control-board","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-psp","tag-skill-games","tag-state-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282686","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=282686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}