Students will have limited access to their phones under a new state law restricting screen time during school hours as the new academic semester for kids begins in a couple weeks – a move largely left to school districts to best decide how to implement.
The limited screen time is part of a new state law that restricts phone use in school districts throughout California as advocates say the move will bolster classroom performance, while critics say it deprives kids of phones in an emergency.
Questions are surfacing in Irvine over the police shooting death of an autistic man after he called 911 worried that he’d hurt himself – a response police say was needed because he charged at officers with a knife, but the man’s family say local law enforcement has dealt with him before and didn’t let the man’s father speak to him before his killing…