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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001477932-25-005155"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SOBR"
cik: "0001425627"
company_name: "SOBR Safe, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T05:37:43.281590+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SOBR Safe shareholders approve reverse stock split authorization, staggered board, and director elections

## Summary
- Approved reverse split of common stock from 1:2 to 1:10 at Board's discretion by Dec 31, 2025; 648,873 for, 176,283 against.
- Amended bylaws to implement staggered board with three classes; initial terms end at 2026, 2027, and 2028 annual meetings.
- Elected Kris Pederson (Class I), Sandy Shoemaker (Class II), and Steven Beabout, Ford Fay, David Gandini (Class III) as directors.
- Approved amendment to 2019 Equity Incentive Plan increasing available shares to 350,000; 325,447 for, 59,363 against.
- Ratified Haynie and Company as independent auditor for FY 2025; 798,175 for, 25,670 against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001477932-25-005155
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SOBR
- cik: 0001425627
- company_name: SOBR Safe, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1425627/000147793225005155/0001477932-25-005155-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1425627/000147793225005155/sobr_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SOBR Safe, Inc.: Amended and Restated Bylaws to implement a staggered board structure with three classes of directors (effective 2025-07-17).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-07-17
  source text: The stockholders approved the Amended and Restated Bylaws to, among other things, implement a staggered Board structure whereby the Board of Directors shall be divided into three classes
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1425627/000147793225005155/0001477932-25-005155-index.htm

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