{"id":20308,"date":"2020-01-24T01:29:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=20308"},"modified":"2020-01-24T01:29:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:29:53","slug":"vaping-news-texas-police-sting-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/20308","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: TEXAS [Police Sting Operations]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1cnse\" data-offset-key=\"9s13l-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9s13l-0-0\">\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"9s13l-0-0\">&#8220;The Austin Police Department will continue to conduct sting operations monitoring the sale of tobacco and vape products to minors. Austin City Council approved $50,000 in funding from Texas State University to APD for the operation at their meeting Thursday. These funds will cover 400 stings costing about $125 each, said Stephanie Jacksis, public information officer specialist for APD. Although the legal age of purchasing tobacco products increased from 18 to 21 in September, Steele said the program will not change the age of those used in the stings. Steele said they do not want to trick the retailer because the specifics between federal and state laws are not clear. The stings will focus solely on retailers and not minors attempting to purchase tobacco or vape products, Steele said.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"9s13l-0-0\">ARTICLE LINK:<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"9s13l-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1cnse\" data-offset-key=\"9s13l-0-0\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"9s13l-0-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedailytexan.com\/2020\/01\/23\/apd-renews-funding-for-stings-of-tobacco-sales-in-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APD renews funding for stings of tobacco sales in Austin<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1cnse\" data-offset-key=\"e4ha-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e4ha-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20TEXAS%20%5BPolice%20Sting%20Operations%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Austin Police Department will continue to conduct sting operations monitoring the sale of tobacco and vape products to minors. Austin City Council approved $50,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaping-news","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20316,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308\/revisions\/20316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}