{"id":3182,"date":"2024-03-13T05:11:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:24:22","slug":"california-law-ab-2773-ending-do-you-know-why-i-pulled-you-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/california-law-ab-2773-ending-do-you-know-why-i-pulled-you-over\/","title":{"rendered":"California Law AB 2773: Ending “Do You Know Why I Pulled You Over?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How many of us have been pulled over only to have the officer say \u201cDo you know why I pulled you over?<\/strong><\/em>\u201d That question is now a thing of the past! California passed AB 2773<\/strong> in 2022, and it just took effect this year. This new law requires officers to state the reason for the stop, and then record all of the details to later be compiled in a report. The information that they must compile includes: date, time, location, reason for the stop, and the result of the stop. The agencies would then have to compile and report that data to the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assembly member Chris Holden came up with this law in order to \u201cpromote equity and accountability in communities across California.\u201d You may be wondering, how does it do that? There is something called a pretextual stop<\/strong>. That is basically pulling someone over for a technicality in order to investigate further crimes. For example, many of our DUI clients get pulled over for expired registrations, and then get cited for DUI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents of the law say that this could protect motorists that may be frightened and attempt to flee when the officer doesn\u2019t indicate why they pulled them over. In my opinion, this law is good because of the fact that officers aren\u2019t tricking people into admitting a crime. Imagine, \u201cDo you know why I pulled you over?\u201d and then the motorist admits to something totally unrelated that the officer wasn\u2019t even investigating? The 5th Amendment right to remain silent is consistent with this law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ticket Crushers is California\u2019s Top-Rated DUI & Traffic Defense Firm with Thousands of Cases Dismissed \u2013 Se Habla Espa\u00f1ol  \u2013 Call us now at 1-866-842-5384<\/a> for more information on Speed Cameras in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Updated: 03\/13\/2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How many of us have been pulled over only to have the officer say \u201cDo you know why I pulled you over?\u201d That question is now a thing of the past! California passed AB 2773 in 2022, and it just took effect this year. This new law requires officers to state the reason for the stop, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"New Traffic Stop Law: Ending \"Do You Know Why I Pulled You Over?\"","_seopress_titles_desc":"California\u2019s new law, AB 2773, mandates that police officers must state the reason for a traffic stop before asking any questions.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,77],"tags":[174,175,176,177],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-california-traffic-laws","category-in-the-news","tag-ab-2773","tag-california-traffic-laws-2024","tag-california-traffic-stop-law","tag-pretexual-stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8066,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/8066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcrusherslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}