{"id":17,"date":"2018-09-06T11:01:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ggt001\/?p=17"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:01:57","slug":"radar-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ggt001\/2018\/09\/06\/radar-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Radar Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to fear of cancer risk from longterm exposer the Iowa Highway Patrol has ordered a ban on hand-held radar guns until studies can be conducted on their safety.<\/p>\n<p>The move is one of the first of it&#8217;s kind and comes two months after three municipal officers in Cedar Rapids filed workman&#8217;s compensation claims, saying they developed cancer from using the hand-held guns<\/p>\n<p>In a statement yesterday Iowa Highway Patrol spokesman Adam Smith said,&#8221;The feeling here is to err on the side of caution until more is known about the issue. The Whole situation is under review.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ban will affects 70 different handheld radar guns that will be removed from service but officers will still use cruiser mounted units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to fear of cancer risk from longterm exposer the Iowa Highway Patrol has ordered a ban on hand-held radar guns until studies can be conducted on their safety. The move is one of the first of it&#8217;s kind and comes two months after three municipal officers in Cedar Rapids filed workman&#8217;s compensation claims, saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1026,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ggt001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ggt001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ggt001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ggt001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ggt001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ggt001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ggt001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ggt001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ggt001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ggt001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}