402.10 - District Landline and Cellular Telephone Usage

402.10 - District Landline and Cellular Telephone Usage

 

The district provides telephones to employees because communication is essential for the performance of their duties, especially in times of emergency or when addressing safety issues.  In addition, the district provides a voice mail system which permits employees to receive and retrieve messages from locations outside of their offices.

The landline and cellular telephones provided by the district to employees are to be used for school business. 

Certain employees are required to perform work outside of their offices or assigned work spaces, outside of the Independence Community School District, or outside of the district’s regular business hours.  It is important to the mission of the district to provide for communication with these employees when they are not in their offices.  Telephone communication is greatly enhanced by the use of cellular telephones.  With a cellular telephone, an employee may receive and respond to calls regardless of the time of day or the employee’s location and retrieve and respond to messages in the district’s voice mail system.

If a cellular telephone assigned to an employee is lost, damaged or is malfunctioning, the Business Office must be notified immediately.  Employees who fail to notify the Business Office immediately of a lost telephone may be responsible for all unauthorized calls made from their assigned cellular telephone and replacement costs.

The district will not reimburse employees for business use of their own cellular telephone.  Employees are encouraged to use their office telephone for business telephone calls.  Employees who have a personal cellular telephone are not expected to use that telephone for district business.

The superintendent or his/her designee is authorized to review the use of district-issued cellular telephones by employees and to revoke the privilege of using a district-issued cellular telephone if it is determined that the cellular telephone is being used primarily for personal business or is being used in any other manner which is contrary to district policy.  

 

 

 

Approved 10/26/2009                           Reviewed 09/19/2011                           Revised 07/19/2010

                                                                             10/17/2016

                                                                             04/11/2022

                                                             

 

 

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