District policy · 2026-2027
Camden County Technical Schools
Camden County · County vocational district · Grades 9-12
Last verified · policy year 2026-2027
Read this entry with one caveat
The page tells students that a device brought in for a before- or after-school activity “must remain inside of their locker or backpack”. That is a storage instruction, not a permission to use one, and the page never says devices may be used outside the school day - so before and after school is recorded as unverified rather than permitted. Class time, lunch, passing time and study hall are recorded as prohibited because the district enumerates all four by name in a passage explicitly about personal internet-enabled devices.
Period by period
2 of 6 not yet verifiedEach row is either something this district’s own document says, or an explicit admission that we have not found it. We never infer one period from another. Passing time, lunch and study hall, the three periods the statute never mentions, are marked with an amber rule.Q8
- Class time
- Not allowed
- Phones and other personal internet-enabled devices are prohibited.Instructional time. Restricted under the statute itself.
- Passing timeNot named in the statute
- Not allowed
- Phones and other personal internet-enabled devices are prohibited.Between classes. NJDOE guidance restricts it; the statute never mentions it.
- LunchNot named in the statute
- Not allowed
- Phones and other personal internet-enabled devices are prohibited.On-campus lunch. NJDOE guidance restricts it; the statute never mentions it.
- Study hallNot named in the statute
- Not allowed
- Phones and other personal internet-enabled devices are prohibited.Study hall. NJDOE guidance restricts it; the statute never mentions it.
- School bus
- Not yet verified
- We have not found a source that states this district's rule for this period. We have not guessed one.State guidance permits phones on buses unless the district goes further. A district rule here is stricter than the state floor.
- Before and after school
- Not yet verified
- We have not found a source that states this district's rule for this period. We have not guessed one.State guidance permits phones outside the school day unless the district goes further.
How phones are stored
A local choice, not a state oneVaries by school
Different schools in the district use different storage methods.
The district "requires that students leave personal internet-enabled devices at home. If a student requires a device for activities before or after the school day, it must remain inside of their locker or backpack."
What happens if the rule is broken
Progressive disciplinary consequences consistent with the Board of Education's Code of Student Conduct. No steps are enumerated.
Asking for an exception
The statute names what a policy must accommodateUse is permitted only where "specifically authorized by school administration or required as part of an approved accommodation." No waiver form is described.
The statute itself names circumstances a policy must accommodate, including an IEP, a 504 plan, a documented health plan, translation needs, certain caregiving responsibilities, and emergencies.s.2.b(3)-(5)
In the district’s own words
Quoted exactly, not summarisedFor CCTS students, “bell-to-bell” means that personal internet-enabled devices (cell phones) and other internet-enabled devices must remain secured and inaccessible throughout the entire instructional day, from the first bell until dismissal.
Camden County Technical Schools · read · Open the document
Everything else on this page is our reading of Camden County Technical Schools’s policy. This is the policy. We quote rather than paraphrase so you can check us against the document instead of taking our word for what it says.
Sources
1 primary, 0 corroboratingNothing on this page can be published without at least one primary source attached to it. That is enforced by the database, not by a habit.
District decisionPrimary source
Internet Enabled Devices: Off and Away
Camden County Technical Schools · checked
Devices must not be visible at any point during the school day, from the 7:34 am opening bell until dismissal at 2:30 pm.