More schools are adopting policies banning cell phones , from all-out bans that forbid students from taking their phones out at any time of day to more flexible policies that allow older students to have their phones out during lunch or other breaks.

In some classrooms, students are even instructed to put their phones in what were once calculator pockets, in pouches meant for cell phones that lock or in plastic bins, where students are meant to collect the devices at the end of a class period or the end of the day.

But does Michigan allow educators to go even further than that? Can schools confiscate phones? And can they search their contents? Here's what we found:

Can schools confiscate students' phones?

Multiple school districts, including Dearborn Public Schools, allow for a cell

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