Under new Tennessee law, teens caught bullying, cyber-bullying can lose driver's license
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Tennessee has passed a law that will allow for teens' driver's licenses to be suspended if found to have committed an act of bullying or cyber-bullying.
"I simply got tired of nothing being done to stop bullying,β bill sponsor state GOP Rep. Lowell Russell told CNN.
For a teen to receive such a punishment, they would have to be adjudicated delinquent, which essentially means a court would have found them guilty of such an attack had they been an adult.
Such teens can have their license suspended for a year or lose the ability to obtain a driver's license for a year, according to the bill...
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