now to protect or project I should say drive safer It Is our year-long commitment to finding solutions to combat reckless driving and tonight we dive into a state law you might not know about it yeah while you might think tinting your car windows looks cool if you're not careful you could get a ticket Ryan Jenkins spoke with experts who explained the law and why it exists at expert Electronics in Milwaukee tinting windows is a popular service in Wisconsin we content however the customer wants Joe Paulson is the owner he says sometimes people ask him to tint their windows so dark they're breaking the law when they drive away what's kind of weird about Milwaukee is a lot of people are getting their whole windshields tinted we say hey this is a really bad idea this is stupid it's way too dark but if you want to do it anyway we'll do it in Wisconsin it's against the law to have your windows too dark the lower the number the darker the tent so five percent that's limousine tens pitch black as dark as it gets so what Wisconsin wants you to have is 35 on the back doors and then 50 on the front doors and 50 is almost clear is extremely light so do you think most customers know that going too dark is against the law do they know that going into it most people do it laws like these are common only three states don't allow window tinting at least in the front of the vehicle New Jersey Vermont and New Hampshire and there's only one state that allows people to tint their Windows to any percentage May Michigan the remaining States all have laws that vary allowing different amounts of tint and color Milwaukee Police say 168 people were cited for tinted window violations in 2021 and another 113 were cited last year those citations come with a fine of just under 100 Andrew Wagner president of the Milwaukee Police Association says the law exists for two reasons one the safety of the people inside the car at night of the higher the tint is on the windows the less availability the driver has to seek oncoming traffic and Cars Moving and things like that and two for the safety of police if they have to pull a car over the visibility could be eliminated even to know how many people are there it could be limited to know like um is this person you know fidgeting when stuff are they reaching underneath the seat are they you know trying to harm us and with every state having different rules Joe says he believes Wisconsin's law could be less harsh I do think that Wisconsin law is way too strict he says Wisconsin could consider new ways to ensure safety while allowing darker tints but when you get pulled over they have a secondary law where you have to roll all your windows down and I think that as long as the windows are rolled down then it doesn't matter how dark the windows are when you're being pulled over for project drive safer Ryan Jenkins TMJ4 News all right sir here's what else we learned in that story from Wisconsin that front windows can only be 50 tinted in rear windows 35 but in Illinois the law is less strict drivers can have a 35 percent tint on both the front and rear windows now going into Minnesota the law is even more strict right because drivers can't have front windows tinted at all and can only have 50 percent tint in the back well from a quick honk to a long one this week's project drive safer traffic safety tip of the week focuses on using your horn behind the wheel now it's the law to have a working horn on your vehicle and it should only be used as a reasonable warning a necessary use of a horn is against the law and could cost you almost 90 bucks if ticketed all right tune in this Wednesday and every Wednesday as Adriana Mendez explains these tips in depth in the 6 a.m hour of the TMJ4 News today for more project drive safer stories and Adriana's previous traffic safety tips of the week just head to project drivesafer.com