In late June 2025, social media users spread a rumor that authorities in Dayton, Ohio, fined a local teenager named Kameron Price and placed him under house arrest for hacking into the city’s traffic system to make the stoplights “sync properly.”
The claim circulated onFacebook, X and TikTok. Many posts paired the claim with an image presumably depicting Price, his workstation and an intersection with traffic lights. Snopes readers also wrote in to ask about the truth of this claim.