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Orange County school board reviews e-scooter and e-bike safety as on-campus incidents rise
Summary
Orange County Public Schools staff briefed the board on rising scooter and e-bike injuries and presented options including education, targeted school restrictions and a possible campus-only ban; board members pressed on enforcement, liability, and staff burden and asked staff to return with local incident data.
Orange County Public Schools held a work session on Nov. 18, 2025, to review the district's response to growing use of electric scooters and e-bikes and an uptick in related injuries among students. District safety staff highlighted injury trends, existing Florida definitions for micro-mobility devices and several policy options the board could consider.
The presentation, led by Joe Sylvester, senior director of safety and emergency management, said scooter and e-bike use among students has surged in recent years and that hospitals report more trauma cases involving head injuries and broken bones. Sylvester cited slide materials showing a sharp increase in emergency-room visits related to scooters since 2017 and a substantial year-to-year rise for teenage riders, and noted that many incidents involve riders not…
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