JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Duval County Public Schools is rolling out new technology aimed at cracking down on dangerous drivers who ignore stopped school buses.<\/p>\n
District leaders unveiled stop arm cameras, now installed on 900 buses across Duval County. The cameras, developed in partnership with BusPatrol America, are designed to capture drivers who illegally pass buses while students are getting on or off.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n The system uses cameras that work together, capturing a vehicle\u2019s make, model, and license plate, while the others record the alleged violation. While the technology is powered by artificial intelligence, AI will not decide who receives a citation.<\/p>\n That decision will still be made by Duval County School Police, who review each incident to determine whether a violation occurred.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re just kind of recording the alleged violation, but we\u2019re not playing a discretionary role about who gets cited and who doesn\u2019t,\u201d said Steve Randazzo with BusPatrol America. \u201cThat\u2019s always reserved for law enforcement only.\u201d<\/p>\n The district says there will be a 30-day public awareness period before enforcement begins. During that time, drivers who violate the law will receive warnings instead of citations.<\/p>\n Starting May 1st, drivers caught passing a stopped school bus could face a $225 fine.<\/p>\n The program comes as the district continues to track student safety incidents involving vehicles. Last year, more than 40 Duval County students were struck by cars, including three who died. So far this year, that number stands at 25, with two fatalities.<\/p>\n District leaders say they hope the cameras will help bring those numbers down.<\/p>\n The program also comes at no upfront cost to the district. Instead, it operates under a revenue-sharing agreement with BusPatrol.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a 50\/50 revenue split with the vendor,\u201d said Chief Operations Officer Jim Culbert. \u201cBusPatrol gets 50 percent of it, and then the district gets 50 percent of all the fines that are issued. There\u2019s no cost to the district whatsoever. We put no money up front for this.\u201d<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Duval County Public Schools is rolling out new technology aimed at cracking down on dangerous…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":698397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[12189,15619,5229,12878,292064,13037,13029,12187,292065,3188,723,11561,7310,425,13036,57513,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-698396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news","tag-action_news_jack","tag-america","tag-beach_boulevard","tag-bus_patrol_america","tag-deja","tag-deja_mayfield","tag-duval_county","tag-duval_county_school_police","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-local","tag-south_bank","tag-tanika","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116332246179625813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}