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Council adopts updated city cell‑phone policy, bans texting while driving on city devices
Summary
The Freeport City Council unanimously approved Resolution 2025-2911, updating Chapter 5, Section 5.22 of the city policy handbook to clarify expectations for city-issued and personal cell-phone use and disciplinary steps.
The Freeport City Council unanimously approved a revision to the city policy handbook on May 5 that clarifies cell-phone usage for city employees and outlines disciplinary options for violations.
Human-resources presenter Miss Fisher told the council the existing policy dated from 2002 and did not reflect modern workplace cell-phone usage. "This policy that is currently in the policy manual is from the original policy manual that was started 02/2002," Fisher said. "The previous policy banned cell…
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