{"id":152,"date":"2009-01-13T10:39:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T17:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2009-01-13T10:39:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T17:39:03","slug":"california-no-texting-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/california-no-texting-law\/","title":{"rendered":"California No Texting Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 1, California prohibited persons from <a href=\"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/california\/vehicle\/23123.5.html\">texting while driving<\/a>.  This new law, found in <a href=\"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/california\/vehicle\/23123.5.html\">California Vehicle Code Section 23123.5<\/a>, covers activities beyond text messaging.  Specifically, the section states<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A person shall not drive a motor vehicle while using an electronic wireless communications device to write, send or read a text-based communication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The code further states that this prohibition applies to text messages, instant messages and electronic mails.  Now, for the strange part.  The code specifically excludes &#8220;read[ing], select[ing] or enter[ing] a telephone number or name &#8230; for the purpose of making or receiving a telephone call.&#8221;  So, some form of text input is apparently safe, but not others.<\/p>\n<p>The real quirk is the focus on text-based communication.  Video conferencing?  Gaming?  Entering text into an electronic diary?  Maintaining a to-do list?  Not prohibited by this law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 1, California prohibited persons from texting while driving. This new law, found in California Vehicle Code Section 23123.5, covers activities beyond text messaging. Specifically, the section states A person shall not drive a motor vehicle while using an electronic wireless communications device to write, send or read a text-based communication. The code further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[43,176],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}