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stop a car? Tis technology made it possible to start improving the safety of our kids.” Like its Dallas counterpart, the Cobb County (Ga.) School District had struggled with solutions to the deadly problem, which has killed 11 children in Georgia since 1995. Exec- utive Director of Transportation Rick Grisham noted that as many as 1,000 stop-arm violations were reported each day in the Cobb County district before camera use started in 2010. He presented recent data at the NAS- DPTS annual conference this past fall. Both districts took a proactive ap-
proach, spending two years researching and preparing for camera implementa- tion. Ordinance changes in Dallas and a new state law in Georgia gave both districts the green light they sought. “We’re just getting the system up, so it is too early for results, much less to be projecting trends, but our goal by installing cameras in 875 of the
“With 1,700 buses and 60,000 kids, there aren’t enough officers to put on enough buses to make a difference,” Duncan said. “And if you had an officer on a bus, how do you stop a car? This technology made it possible to start improving the safety of our kids”
had no less than 20 violations at one particular stop.” Territo indicated the growth of
stop-arm technology is directly tied to enabling state legislation. Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi and Washington enacted such laws in 2012. Tomas O’Connor, president of
district’s 1,700 buses was to reduce the single biggest threat to our students’ safety,” Duncan said. “We’re finding an average of one violation per bus per day, and earlier we had one bus that
Redflex’s student safety division, Redflex Student Guardian, based in Providence, R.I., noted his company is working with at least nine states considering similar legislation this year. O’Connor predicted at press time that close to 20 states will allow æ
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