Oregon phone-free school executive order (2026): Oregon's executive order requires every district to adopt a policy banning personal devices during regular instructional hours. Here's what administrators need to know about compliance, scope, and enforcement.
Oregon addresses student phone use through a gubernatorial directive. Executive Order 25-09 (2025) — issued by Gov. Tina Kotek 2025-07-02 — directs every district to adopt a phone-free policy. The order is binding administratively but is not a statute, which means a future governor or legislature could change the framework. Effective 2025–26 school year.
What Oregon's Phone-Free School Executive Order Requires
- • Action: Executive Order 25-09, signed July 2, 2025
- • Scope: bell-to-bell during instructional hours
- • Builds on October 2024 ODE guidance
- • Districts implement local policies
- • Effective: 2025–26 school year
How Oregon Schools Comply
Oregon's executive order gives districts flexibility on how to enforce. The schools that succeed pair a written policy with an enforcement mechanism that doesn't put the burden on teachers — and that produces compliance data when the state asks for it.
Three enforcement models
- • Physical pouches (e.g., Yondr): high per-student cost, daily distribution logistics, and limited compliance data.
- • District storage (lockers, cubbies, classroom caddies): lowest cost but relies on staff to police compliance.
- • Device-level software (LockedIn): OS-level locking, geofencing, and automated compliance reporting — no daily logistics.
Why Oregon schools choose LockedIn
LockedIn is a software-based phone-free campus solution built for Oregon's schools. It provides
OS-level device locking,
campus geofencing, real-time monitoring, and automated compliance reports — exactly what Oregon administrators need to demonstrate that the policy is being enforced. Unlike physical pouches, there's no hardware to lose, replace, or distribute. See our full
comparison of phone-free campus solutions or the
LockedIn vs Yondr pouches guide.
Verify the executive order in Oregon
Read the primary source — Executive Order 25-09 (2025) — and confirm the latest guidance with your state agency before adopting policy.
See our complete phone-free school laws by state directory for legislation updates across all 50 states + DC.
Get started
Oregon schools can be phone-free in less than a day with LockedIn. Use our free phone-free school policy generator to draft a compliant policy, then contact our team to deploy district-wide.