{"id":324933,"date":"2026-11-10T17:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324933\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:18:11","slug":"psp-checks-more-than-12000-businesses-for-skill-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324933\/","title":{"rendered":"PSP checks more than 12,000 businesses for skill games"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Susan<\/a>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania State Police report a 99.4% compliance rate among businesses after nearly a month of enforcing a ban on skill games.<\/p>\n

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Since Oct. 14, troopers have visited 12,202 establishments across the state to check for skill games. The agency found that 12,134 locations no longer have the devices, equating to a 99.4% compliance rate. <\/p>\n

Of the businesses not in compliance, PSP seized 14 machines and just under $2,000. PSP is actively investigating these locations. Businesses that fail to remove the devices could face criminal charges. <\/p>\n

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A June ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court defined skill games as “slot machines” under the state’s Gaming Act, making them illegal to operate without a license from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. <\/p>\n

In October, there was hope that state lawmakers would pass legislation to legalize the devices before the court’s ruling took effect. The issue could be revisited during the 2027 General Assembly session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police report a 99.4% compliance rate among businesses after nearly a month of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131609,131607,26360,131608,4474,96143,8433,35049,125699,126089,539,28,9414,30,29,1224,8109,6429,118334,1979,34280,487],"class_list":["post-324933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-99-4-compliance","tag-ban-on-skill-games","tag-businesses","tag-compliance-rate","tag-criminal-charges","tag-gaming-act","tag-general-assembly","tag-legalization","tag-machine-seizure","tag-oct-14","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-gaming-control-board","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-pennsylvania-supreme-court","tag-psp","tag-skill-game-enforcement","tag-skill-games","tag-slot-machines","tag-state-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324933","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=324933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}