captures 30 to 40 violations daily. “We hope to see that number go down as time goes on,” he added. Hardesty noted that the technology may also help
retain bus drivers who are very pleased to see violators being caught. “We get a monthly summary from Bus Patrol that I share with our bus contractors, who then share that with the drivers,” he said. “The feedback is very positive. Drivers like to see that the people passing their buses are being caught by the system. There is a high degree of satisfaction with the drivers knowing the system is on their bus. In the long run, it’s making things safer in Carroll County.” Hardesty added the local Sheriff’s department also has
endorsed the use of Bus Patrol, leading to the county commissioners and school board members to recognize the issue exists and supporting video enforcement as an optimal way to protect school children. Jefferson County Public Schools near Denver, mean-
while, completed an installation of Safety Vision systems last spring, including internal as well as external cam- eras, after having experienced a 10 percent increase in illegal passing incidents over the past few years. The dis- trict also replaced an aging system that was presenting problems when downloading
data.The fleet of 435 school buses plus 13 SUVs are equipped with the technology.
Greg Jackson, executive director of transportation and fleet services, noted that the district leveraged budget savings it realized when the need to transport students diminished after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to purchase the technology. The district also received funding from a state grant. The district uses Safety Vision’s EXT-AHD exterior HD cameras with day and night functionality, an 88-degree field of view and a 1080p maximum resolution. Cameras are placed on the driver’s side for capturing
speeders and positioned downward on the passenger side for the span of the bus stop to capture events at what has typically been a blind spot. For instance, it captures irate parents who act ag-
gressively toward the drivers, said Jackson, adding it eliminates the he-said, she-said accounts that occur. “We did this to protect our drivers and to have an
opportunity to see the antics and the behaviors that hap- pen at the side,” Jackson explained. “We may capture a group of students who are bullying a student or in a fight as a bus pulls up or was about to pull away.” The footage is supplied to the district’s safety and se-
curity team and to law enforcement if requested as well as to the schools’ administrators when they’re investi- gating certain things that are brought to their attention.
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