{"id":79181,"date":"2011-03-16T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=79181"},"modified":"2011-03-17T11:24:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:24:03","slug":"bill-targets-owners-of-killer-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=79181","title":{"rendered":"Bill Targets Owners of Killer Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/03\/16\/bill-targets-owners-of-killer-dogs\/thumb_chuckhopson\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79182\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/03\/thumb_chuckhopson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_chuckhopson\" width=\"91\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79182\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAUSTIN &#8212;  Dog owners whose pets kill a child or senior citizen could spend some time in prison.   For Jacksonville Republican State Representative Chuck Hopson, the issue is personal.  He\u2019s had two kids lost in his district to vicious dog attacks.   Hopson says it would be a first-degree felony when a child under the age of fifteen or an adult over the age of 65 is killed by a dog.   Hopson says someone would face that charge only if the person had been notified that he or she had a vicious dog, or if it was the dog owner&#8217;s negligence that led to the fatal attack. The bill is being considered by a House committee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; Dog owners whose pets kill a child or senior citizen could spend some time in prison. For Jacksonville Republican State Representative Chuck Hopson, the issue is personal. He\u2019s had two kids lost in his district to vicious dog attacks. Hopson says it would be a first-degree felony when a child under the age &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=79181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill Targets Owners of Killer Dogs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"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-79181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 19:46:38","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\/79181","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79181"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79439,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79181\/revisions\/79439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}