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Some schools reported that allowing all students to use cell phones at the same time slows down school bandwidth speeds, and hence some schools have blocked phones from accessing the school Wi-Fi. [86] Phone use in schools is not just an issue for students and teachers but also for other employees of educational institutions.
Pennsylvania's Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to encourage school districts to start a pilot program that effectively bans students' use of cellphones during the school day in an effort to ...
The laws regulating driving (or "distracted driving") may be subject to primary enforcement or secondary enforcement by state, county or local authorities. [1]All state-level cell phone use laws in the United States are of the "primary enforcement" type — meaning an officer may cite a driver for using a hand-held cell phone without any other traffic offense having taken place — except in ...
In 2009 in the US, there was a reported 5,474 people killed by distracted drivers. Of those, 995 were considered to be killed by drivers distracted by cell phones. The report does not state whether this under- or overrepresents the level of cell phone use amongst drivers, and whether there is a causal relationship. [13]
The Clarke County School District is implementing 'No Phone Zones' for the 2024-25 school year that begins on Thursday.. The policy is put in place to 'improve student engagement, decrease ...
Students have permission to use cell phones on campus before school, between classes, in the cafeteria during lunch periods, and after school. They are not permitted to be used during class.
Text messaging or cell phone use without a hands free device is a primary offense. [145] [146] West Virginia: Summer 2012 Text messaging and the use of handheld cell phones are illegal for all drivers in West Virginia. Teenagers who have a learner's permits or intermediate licenses are prohibited from using wireless communication devices while ...
Twenty-eight states already ban cell phone use while driving, according information from the National Conference of State Legislatures. Meanwhile, at least 23 states have laws on collecting data ...