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Fulton Daily News

Texting Tickets Triple After Tough Law Begins

Driving while texting tickets handed out in Oswego County in the year before and the year after the state's tough new restriction on texting behind the wheel.The number of tickets handed out for texting while driving tripled in Oswego County in the year since the state toughened the penalties.  A year ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill that made texting while driving a primary offense.  It meant that police could pull a driver over if they saw the driver sending a text message.

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Oswego Daily News

Funding To Relieve Jail Over-Crowding Sparks Debate

The Oswego County Legislature today (July 12) approved transferring funds to cover the cost of boarding OCJ inmates in other county facilities. The resolution to transfer an additional $200,000 prompted a lengthy debate about how to correct the problem without continually having to spend more money on it. At some point, one legislator said, the county is going to have to tell the state: enough is enough.

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