MCPS Bus Camera Company: A private company equipped school buses with security cameras to capture drivers illegally passing the stopped vehicles. The firm then mailed citations to the drivers. The school districts were to receive a cut of the money collected. Two years later, none of the school districts has gotten a penny, and BusGuard... is defunct.

It was supposed to keep children safe and generate extra revenue for San Antonio-area school districts.

A private company equipped school buses with security cameras to capture drivers illegally passing the stopped vehicles. The firm then mailed citations to the drivers. The school districts were to receive a cut of the money collected.

Two years later, none of the school districts has gotten a penny, and BusGuard, the Dallas-based firm that owned the technology, is defunct...

...BusGuard, along with Dallas County Schools and Force Multiplier Solutions, have been in the center of a federal probe that’s led to resignations and a guilty plea for federal wire fraud stemming from a bribery and kickback scheme, according to news reports. In November, Dallas County voters decided to shutter Dallas County Schools, which levied a property tax in Dallas County.

Dallas County Schools worked with Force Multiplier Solutions to market the technology as BusGuard.

School districts are filing claims with a committee formed after BusGuard’s downfall. It is charged with handling debts from those deals. NEISD was supposed to receive more than $600,000 last summer and is now evaluating how it’s going to proceed.

A group of Canadian investors who had originally licensed the technology for use in Canada has formed a company called BusPatrol that’s working to revive the program...

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/politics/article/Council-committee-weighs-program-aimed-at-fining-13028951.php