{"id":743059,"date":"2018-09-26T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=743059"},"modified":"2018-09-26T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T15:51:23","slug":"fcc-to-vote-on-karis-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=743059","title":{"rendered":"FCC to Vote on Kari&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/KARI-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-689432\" \/>EAST TEXAS &#8212; The FCC will be voting today to propose rules implementing Kari&#8217;s Law. The law requires phone systems to let people dial 911 directly, without having to dial a prefix &#8211; like &#8220;nine&#8221; &#8211; to reach an outside line. It was named after Kari Hunt Dunn. She was murdered by her estranged husband in front of her children at a motel in East Texas. Her daughter tried to call 911 from the motel room phone four times, but the call wouldn&#8217;t go through because she needed to dial another number first. Governor Greg Abbott signed Kari&#8217;s Law in 2015. A national version of the law was signed by President Trump earlier this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; The FCC will be voting today to propose rules implementing Kari&#8217;s Law. The law requires phone systems to let people dial 911 directly, without having to dial a prefix &#8211; like &#8220;nine&#8221; &#8211; to reach an outside line. It was named after Kari Hunt Dunn. She was murdered by her estranged husband &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=743059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FCC to Vote on Kari&#8217;s Law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":689432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 06:30:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743060,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743059\/revisions\/743060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/689432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}