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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

NCSL: State School Bus Stop-Arm Camera Laws

A growing number of states are attempting to catch and punish motorists who pass stopped school buses by allowing cameras to be placed on the outside of the bus to record such illegal passing. At least 21 states have school bus stop-arm camera laws.
In 2019, Indiana, Maine, New York, Oklahoma and Tennessee authorized localities or school districts to use school bus stop-arm cameras. Pennsylvania did so in 2018, and in the 2017 legislative session, Arkansas and Utah passed legislation to allow school bus stop-arm cameras. In 2016, Alabama enacted a law allowing for exterior school bus cameras, expanding a program initially created in 2015 in Mobile County. In the 2014 legislative session, South Carolina and Wyoming enacted such laws. In the 2011 and 2012 legislative sessions, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington enacted such measures...

3 comments:

  1. Stem the tide of the one-arm mobile bandits. . .

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  2. Do not look to PA. The law there may not even be legal. How about common sense and proper engineering?

    Pull up the National Motorists Association.

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    1. The law may not even be legal
      The act may not even be regal
      The officials maybe too dense
      To use proper common sense.

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