College Campuses: Sportsbooks’ Next Geofencing Challenge May Be Smaller Than State Lines

College Campuses: Sportsbooks’ Next Geofencing Challenge May Be Smaller Than State Lines

On paper, it seems like a pretty straightforward idea: draw a digital line around a college campus to stop people inside it from placing mobile sports bets.

In practice, that line may have to wind around public roads, private businesses, hospitals, student housing, and mixed-use buildings. And the map would have to keep changing as the campus itself changes.

That’s the challenge behind a pair of bills in New York that would turn college campuses into no-bet zones for mobile wagering.

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