{"id":38496,"date":"2023-11-07T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=38496"},"modified":"2023-11-07T12:53:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T17:53:45","slug":"bocc-bans-smoking-and-vaping-at-active-public-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/11\/07\/bocc-bans-smoking-and-vaping-at-active-public-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"BoCC Bans Smoking and Vaping at Active Public Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Polk County Board of County Commissioners adopted an ordinance today authorizing the County Manager to prohibit smoking and vaping in public parks in unincorporated Polk County.\u00a0 Based on the Board\u2019s direction, the initial focus will be on prohibiting smoking and vaping in active parks, such as playgrounds and sports complexes that serve youth sports programs<a>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/unnamed-1024x681.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/unnamed-1024x681.png 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/unnamed-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/unnamed-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/unnamed.png 1500w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>CAPTION: Members of the youth-led advocacy group Polk Students Against Tobacco pose with the Polk County Board of County Commissioners this morning.<\/strong><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ordinance will become effective upon filing with the Secretary of State\u2019s Office. Parks will have signage informing the public of the no smoking\/vaping policy. Individuals who violate the ordinance may be asked to vacate the premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This ordinance originated with the youth-led advocacy group Polk Students Against Tobacco. SWAT members had previously approached the Board and requested action to cut down on tobacco\u2019s harmful effects in public areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Board adopted the ordinance by a 5-0 vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s very encouraging whenever young people get involved,\u201d said Commissioner George Lindsey, \u201cespecially when it results in a positive action like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polk County Board of County Commissioners adopted an ordinance today authorizing the County Manager to prohibit smoking and vaping in public parks in unincorporated Polk County.\u00a0 Based on the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[6629],"class_list":["post-38496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bocc-bans-smoking-and-vaping-at-active-public-parks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}