The company has deployed cameras in buses in New York City, Tampa and Pittsburgh, but Chief Growth Officer Steve Randazzo said he's never seen anything like Clark County.
During a two-month pilot study in the county, BusPatrol estimates it documented nearly 5,400 violations across 30 buses. That averages 6.1 violations a day per bus.
"Clark County has thousands of students that are utilizing school buses to get to and from school each day," said Assemblymember Tracy Brown-May, D-Las Vegas. "The data shows that there are more violations in this area than we ever anticipated."
Just under 17 percent of the violations BusPatrol tracked came from one area: the 1800 block of Maryland Parkway. An additional 11 percent came from the 7600 block of South Durango Drive, according to BusPatrol's data, while the rest were spread across the county.
The company also examined Carson City, finding 1.1 violations each day per bus.
Brown-May and Randazzo last week pitched a bill to the Nevada Assembly's Growth and Infrastructure Committee that would allow school districts to install similar cameras to then fine drivers who ignore their buses' stop signs.
Randazzo explained that his company's cameras will snap a photo of a vehicle's license plate and then transfer it to law enforcement.
"The cameras do not write the tickets," he stressed. "All of the videos must be sent to a certified police officer with law enforcement training to make that independent decision about whether to issue a citation."
To emphasize their point, Brown-May and Randazzo showed video taken in Clark County with cars not even slowing for school buses with extended stop signs.
If the legislation is signed into law, infractions caught by the cameras would not count as moving violations, nor would they cause drivers to gain demerit points.
Under Brown-May's conceptual amendments, money from the tickets would go to the school district where the infraction happened. The districts could use that money only for the camera system or some other technology related to transportation safety.
Assemblymember Toby Yurek, R-Mesquite, said BusPatrol's data showed that cars ignoring buses' stop signs was an obvious problem, but he found mixed data about whether the discussed camera system would help. He then asked whether Brown-May would consider a pilot study.
While the bill is limited to the use of cameras in school district buses, Brown-May agreed that having districts collect data on the program's effectiveness would be a "phenomenal" idea to add to the bill.
The committee took no action on the legislation.
Jason Woodard — representing the Nevada Sheriffs' and Chiefs' Association, which supports the bill — formerly supervised the Sparks Police Department's traffic division.
While there, Woodard helped organize "targeted operations" to address the same issue Brown-May presented.
He explained to the committee members that the operation involved a plainclothes officer riding along a bus route after parents or the school complained. He joked that the bus drivers appreciated the quiet ride the officers' presence created, but said it still taxed the department's resources heavily.
The cameras give "school districts the opportunity to expand that capability," Woodard said, "to essentially enforce every school equally in order to try and reduce what are potentially some very serious and fatal accidents."
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