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Poquoson council adopts ordinance allowing school-bus stop-arm cameras
Summary
Poquoson City Council voted unanimously to add a city code section authorizing video monitoring systems on school buses, allowing the school division to install exterior stop‑arm cameras and partner with a vendor to process citations.
Poquoson City Council on a 7-0 vote adopted an ordinance adding a new section to the city code to authorize video monitoring systems on and in school buses to detect vehicles that illegally pass stopped school buses.
The move implements technology the police department and school division say will improve student safety on the way to and from school. Chief Cates told the council that Virginia Code §46.2-844(b)(2) allows localities to adopt ordinances permitting school divisions to install video monitoring systems on school buses and that the school system’s administrative staff wants to partner with a vendor called Bus Patrol.
Chief Cates said the system will activate exterior cameras when a bus’s…
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