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Originally Posted by flameswin
No, it should be a reason to not allow police the ability to take it because of a traffic violation. Police require a warrant to take your phone in any situation, so to make a law that allows them to do so with no warrant is a terrible precendent to set.
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Not entirely true. Cell phones can be seized and search through incident to arrest in regards to certain charges. The majority of the time, cell phones can be seized without warrant incident to arrest or seized for evidence, though usually a search warrant is required to go through the device.