{"id":4787,"date":"2011-03-21T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T21:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2011-03-21T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T21:12:01","slug":"bill-passes-to-ban-sagging-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4787","title":{"rendered":"Bill Passes To Ban Sagging Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, FL &#8212; A new bill has passed in the House of Representatives that bans clothing that is worn sagging in the state of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced by <strong>Rep. Hazelle Rogers <\/strong>(D-Lauderhill, Florida) the bill was passed unanimously by the committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This pro-family, pro-education, pro-jobs bill provides each school district &#8230; adopt a student dress code of conduct, a policy that explains to each student their responsibility,&#8221; <strong>Rep. Rogers<\/strong> said. &#8220;This would make for a better school district and more productive students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill doesn&#8217;t say the word &#8220;sag&#8221; in it, but clothing that &#8220;exposes the underwear or body parts in an indecent or vulgar manner,&#8221; is pretty much saying the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>If students are caught breaking the new clothing bill, they can be\u00a0 excused from extracurricular activities and even be given an in-school suspension.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 sagging pants trend is thought to originated in the prison system, &#8220;where belts are not issued because they may be used to commit suicide or used as weapons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The local branch of the NAACP in Florida has condemned the bill, claiming that black youth will be targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, FL &#8212; A new bill has passed in the House of Representatives that bans clothing that is worn sagging in the state of Florida. Introduced by Rep. Hazelle Rogers (D-Lauderhill, Florida) the bill was passed unanimously by the committee. &#8220;This pro-family, pro-education, pro-jobs bill provides each school district &#8230; adopt a student dress code [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}