Wanjiru Waweru, Jadetimes Staff
W. Waweru is Jadetimes News Reporter Covering America News
Worcester, Massachusetts – A latest bill signed into law provides the community to install cameras on school buses to record drivers who fail to prevent during student pick-up, and drop-offs. The main goal is to support local police enforce existing laws which recently go underenforced, according to Senator Michael Moore.
The camera systems would take surveillance photos and videos of vehicles in violation of the law, however it would be a decision to the police to go over the footage and investigate what things need to be addressed. Buses furnished with the camera must be clearly seen.
Michael Freeman, the Director of Transportation for Worcester Public Schools made a point about this case.
“Stop arm camera will be mounted on the side of the school bus where the stop sign comes out,” said Freeman. “And it will use, algorithms and artificial technology to grab pictures of cars as they go through the stop sign, and it will capture that information. It’ll send it to the police department, and the police department will be able to review the information and then send out citations based off that information. Just last week, we had a driver that was offloading students in a car came by and actually took off the stop sign and ripped it off the side of the bus.”
The bill was authenticated early this month. Fines controlled the violation that would be located to the city or town in which the violation would be eventually occurred. Worcester School Committee passed and solve the resolution in November 2022 to address for local control about this incident.
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