{"id":4012,"date":"2012-02-06T12:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T12:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:42","slug":"cell-phones-not-welcome-on-community-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phones-not-welcome-on-community-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phones Not Welcome on Community Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/no-phone.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2525\" title=\"no-phone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/no-phone.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2525 lazyload\" title=\"no-phone\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/no-phone.gif\"><\/a>People who have to attend court ordered community service would be well advised not to bring their new or old cell phones with them when they turn up, or they could find themselves heading to prison.&nbsp; That is what happened to ten people in Coweta County in the United States recently.&nbsp; The ten individuals concerned had other violations including not paying fines or being behind on service hours, but it was being caught, after repeated warnings, with cell phones that they found themselves being booked into Coweta County Jail, where they will have to stay until they can appear before a judge, which will be Thursday at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>\u201cWe are very serious about this,\u201d Coweta County State Court\u2019s chief probation officer, Michael Terrell, says.&nbsp; \u201cProbation is part of your sentence\u2026 and if you violate your probation you can go to jail.&nbsp; People ask us if they can really go to jail for this, and we tell them \u2018yes\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>Over the last few weeks, more and more people have been breaking the ban on cell phones, which has led the probation office to begin taking serious steps, including pre-announced pat-downs.&nbsp; Terrell insists the issue is partly one of safety.&nbsp; \u201cA lot of them are out there picking up trash and wanting to put in headphones or start texting,\u201d he points out.&nbsp; \u201cThey might not be paying attention and we don\u2019t want anyone stepping out into the street and getting run over.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who have to attend court ordered community service would be well advised not to bring their new or old cell phones 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