[Libloather]

Are Hussein phones exempt?

[Recompennation]

CDL commercial driver licensed drivers ie truck drivers are already under federal regs on cell phone crimes. I should think that less qualified drivers especially (on NJz) should be behaviourially nannied too.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Can’t the cops just check with the NSA?

[Albion Wilde]

I actually think this is a good idea, provided they are only searching for the time of the last call, and not whether you were on a conference call with the Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College, Concerned Women for America, Tea Party Express and the Family Research Council.

Nothing wrong with states being able to enforce road safety.

[RadiationRomeo]

What if the driver claims they don’t have a cell phone with them? Can the cops search the car and person without a warrent? What if the cops claim they saw a phone being used, can they search?

[BulletBobCo]

Cell phone? What cell phone. I left it at home. Now they will search your car.

[ironleg]

The Peoples Republic of New Jersey strikes again.

[rmh47]

It requires officers to have "reasonable grounds" to believe the law was broken.

And you can bet your last dollar that the police will have, find, or manufacture "reasonable grounds" in every case in which they want to know what's on your cellphone.

[jiggyboy]

I think there was already a Supreme Court case that said they could search a phone on any stop, if it’s “available to the driver” or something like that. In that case, locking it in the glove compartment made it off limits.

[Kakaze]

Phones are not "phones" anymore. I know mine has a lot of personal and work information it, some people even have banking information there.

I would refuse to give them my password.

[Londo Molari]

Other than it being a constitutionally bad idea, how about the practical side of thing? exactly do they get an accurate timestamp? If I am in a small fenderbender and I call my wife 2 minutes right after the accident, how does the cop know what time the accident occurred? Could he accuse me of being on the phone with my wife because there was a logged call near the time of the accident?

[zeugma]

This is yet another reason it is important to have a password on your phone.

[Recompennation]

SARCASM! FOLLOWING SHOULD HAVE SAID SORRY. CDL commercial driver licensed drivers ie truck drivers are already under federal regs on cell phone crimes. I should think that less qualified drivers especially (on NJz) should be behaviourially nannied too.