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Enforcement technician pitches stop-arm camera program used in Orange County to Sullivan County legislators
Summary
Michael Belgiovini of Orange County Emergency Services described a stop-arm camera program that records motorists who pass school buses with red lights activated, saying the system costs local governments nothing and produces civil citations mailed to registered vehicle owners.
Michael Belgiovini, an enforcement technician with Orange County Emergency Services’ school bus safety program, told the Sullivan County Legislature on Monday that a private company’s stop-arm camera system has produced thousands of civil citations and changed motorist behavior in Orange County.
Belgiovini said the system — deployed as a partnership with a company called Bus Patrol — uses video cameras, license-plate readers and artificial intelligence to identify vehicles that pass stopped school buses with red lights activated. "Basically what this company does is, it has technology that takes pictures of, records, and is issuing, notices of violation to people that pass school buses with the red lights on,"…
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