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Rochester board hears vendor pitch for automated school-bus stop‑arm enforcement; city, district to shape next steps
Summary
A vendor told the Rochester City School District Board of Education it can outfit every district bus with automated cameras at no upfront cost; board members and parents pressed for clarity on how ticket revenue would be shared with the city and how student privacy and due process would be protected.
Bus Patrol representatives presented an automated school‑bus stop‑arm camera program to the Rochester City School District Board of Education on March 27 and sought the district’s cooperation in an intergovernmental agreement with the city that would allow cameras to be installed on district buses.
The vendor said it would supply and install cameras and processing software at no cost to the district and would recoup its investment through violator fines. Ryan Monnell, who identified himself as a Bus Patrol representative, described the company’s approach to evidence collection, the use of artificial‑intelligence pre‑screening to reduce false positives, and a process in which video evidence is packaged and provided to the Rochester Police Department for review and possible citation.
The pitch followed public comments from parents and community members urging the board to support technology to stop illegal passing of buses. Parent speakers described local crashes and near‑misses involving students…
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