At least 21 Pennsylvania school districts began using the technology at the beginning of this school year.
The road to a new way of protecting Pennsylvania students from traffic began in 2017 as Allentown mom Amber Clark walked her daughter, Olivia, across the street to board a school bus for the third day of kindergarten.
BusPatrol, a Virginia-based safety tech company that supplies the camera systems to almost all the Pennsylvania districts that use them, said it has equipped 1,000 yellow buses in Pennsylvania with cameras that captured just under 8,000 violations from late August through November last year. Before, it was difficult to catch and punish drivers who passed through the safety zone around a stopped school bus. Either a police officer had to witness the violation and write a ticket, or a witness needed to provide the color, make and model of the vehicle; its license plate number and a description of the driver to prompt an investigation.
The senator, who lost reelection last year and currently is Gov. Josh Shapiro’s nominee for state revenue secretary, said he’d write a bus-camera bill. State Rep. Mike Schlossberg agreed to work on a House version. Social media and word-of-mouth connected the local activists with like-minded parents elsewhere in the state, creating a lobby for change.
The fines pay for the program. Under the law, the provider of the camera systems receives $150 of the $300 penalty. The school district gets $100 and local police get $25. Another $25 goes to a state grant program promoting bus safety. The Phoenixville Area School District in Chester County and Spring-Ford School District in Montgomery County signed early with BusPatrol, and they had cameras in time for fall 2021.
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