CLEVELAND (WJW) - Putting the brakes on traffic ticket quotas, Ohio Senate Bill 114 has become law and will take effect on Tuesday.

“We call it the ticket quota bill,” said State Senator Tom Patton, R-Strongsville. “So that a police chief or supervisor or city administration can not demand a specific number of tickets be written in a particular day, shift or month.”

The bill was unanimously passed in the Ohio Senate earlier in the year and then signed into law by Governor Mike DeWine at the beginning of July.

The law makes it illegal for any law enforcement agency in the state to set, enforce or assign quotas of traffic tickets for officers.

Patton said the new law has strong support from officers across the state and police organizations, including the FOP, OPPA and CPPA.

“They want

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