GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Distracted driving enforcement is a moving target within a moving target for law enforcement, and enforcing the state’s hands-free cell phone law has evolved since it was first implemented in 2019.
“When we first started doing this enforcement, people would have the phone up in front of their face, the steering wheel,” said St. Paul Police Sgt. Josh Moore. “You see a lot of it now where people are holding the phone down trying to hide it, and their eyes are looking down off the roadway at the phone, so it’s, in my opinion, even more dangerous.”
Moore would know. For several years now, he and his fellow officers in St. Paul have led the state in the number of distracted driving citations issued during the state’s annual distracted driving campaign…