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It's pretty clear: Put down the phone or you might get a ticket
90 days in, almost 1K citations written statewide each month under Hands-Free law
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Gainesville Police Officer Derek Evatt prepares to issue a hands free citation to a driver Friday, Oct. 5, 2018, after spotting the driver holding a cell phone while driving. For the Gainesville Police Department, officers kicked off the first month of the new law with 123 warnings and 17 citations. That dynamic switched in August, when those on patrol wrote 48 warnings and 106 citations. - photo by Scott Rogers
For every 11 drivers with a Hall County Sheriff’s Office deputy’s blue lights in their rear-view mirror, the last one is walking away with a ticket and a court date if they touched their cellphone while driving. “We’re kind of getting to the point now to where we’re going to be writing more citations and less warnings,” said sheriff’s office Sgt. Todd Casper.