{"id":21471,"date":"2015-10-31T02:14:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T09:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21471"},"modified":"2015-10-31T02:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T09:14:16","slug":"halloween-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/halloween-caution\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Cautionary &#8216;Tails&#8217; and Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dogha1.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>CAUTIONARY TALE<\/strong>: We&#8217;re\u00a0bullish about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/california-halloween-city-events.html\">Halloween<\/a>\u00a0but don&#8217;t recommend taking risks to end up in the slammer. \u00a0Operation Boo implemented by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for the 22nd year targets more than 80,000 registered sex offenders in California, including transients living on the streets. (Unfortunately, up to 25%\u00a0of sex offenders\u00a0aren&#8217;t\u00a0registered.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>HALLOWEEN TIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Avoid trick or treating at houses where the lights are out. Sex offenders are not supposed to have lights on in front of their\u00a0residences\u00a0and are only allowed to open the door for\u00a0law enforcement\u00a0during Halloween.<\/li>\n<li>Police Departments\u00a0encourage you to check\u00a0Megan\u2019s Law website for sex offenders in the areas your children will be in and avoid those homes and apartments. meganslaw.ca.gov<\/li>\n<li>If you have questions about safety, skip trick or treating at houses and head for community events\u00a0sponsored by merchants,\u00a0preferably in\u00a0areas closed to traffic.<\/li>\n<li>In 2015 bars are allowed to\u00a0stay open and serve liquor an hour longer\u00a0than usual on\u00a0Halloween night as the clock rolls back 1 hour at 2 a.m. on Nov. 1,\u00a0Daylight Savings.<\/li>\n<li>Since\u00a0Halloween and Daylight Savings time both\u00a0occur on Oct. 31-Nov. 1, expect\u00a0DUI\/Drivers License Checkpoints. An average DUI costs an estimated $2,800 in fixed costs, plus insurance increases that can be as much as $40,000 over time.<\/li>\n<li>Chocolate can be deadly to pets in any amount. Keep the\u00a0treat jar out of paws reach.<\/li>\n<li>Keep pets secured in areas where they will be less stressed and can&#8217;t run away\u00a0during Trick or Treat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAUTIONARY TALE: We&#8217;re\u00a0bullish about\u00a0Halloween\u00a0but don&#8217;t recommend taking risks to end up in the slammer. \u00a0Operation Boo implemented by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for the 22nd year targets more than 80,000 registered sex offenders in California, including transients living on the streets. (Unfortunately, up to 25%\u00a0of sex offenders\u00a0aren&#8217;t\u00a0registered.) HALLOWEEN TIPS \u00a0Avoid trick or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}