LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Clark County College District Police Division remodeled 200 site visitors stops and issued over 70 site visitors citations on the primary day of the 2025-2026 college yr, in line with CCSDPD.
Officers made 207 site visitors stops and issued 73 site visitors citations, with a lot of the stops for velocity violations and U-turns at school zones, CCSDPD mentioned. Not the entire citations had been solely for shifting violations, as some had been for different points, together with registration violations, no driver’s license and insurance coverage points.
Clark County College District police issued almost 5K site visitors citations at school zones throughout 2024-25
CCSDPD needs to remind drivers that faculty zones are energetic half-hour earlier than and half-hour after college arrival and dismissal time.
Most CCSD excessive faculties start at 7 a.m. and are dismissed at 1:11 p.m. Center faculties start at 8 a.m. and are dismissed at 2:11 p.m. or 3:11 p.m.
Drivers additionally want to recollect to decelerate and listen not solely to CCSD faculties but additionally non-public and constitution faculties which can be additionally again in session, CCSDPD mentioned.
At a information convention on Monday marking the primary day of college, CCSD Superintendent Jhone Ebert reiterated the foundations of the highway at school zones and outlined her dedication to bettering security.
“We’re asking our community to rally around traffic. This morning, we had just over a hundred traffic stops and about 50 citations,” Ebert mentioned at Fertitta Center College. “Slow down, we have posted speed limits. Leave early so you and your children are not feeling rushed as you’re going through our school zones.”
Data obtained by 8 Information Now present that police issued 4,860 site visitors citations throughout the 2024-2025 college yr.