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Texting ban, one year later: behaviors are slow to change?

By Katie Leslie, Victoria Loe Hicks
July 1, 2011

Cobb County Police Sgt. Dana Pierce issued his first texting-while-driving citation on the first day that the law was enforced last summer. He caught the female driver red-handed, or -thumbed, as it were, as she texted at a red light.

The woman looked up, saw his marked car and mouthed: "Oh $

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