Drivers still stuck in limbo as questions over Florida’s new school bus cameras prompts lawsuit

“100% it’s a money grab.”

Nearly three months after he was fined for illegally passing a stopped school bus in Tampa, Lars Larson is still waiting for his chance to fight the $225 citation in court.

“I don’t know, but I’m going to keep moving. They know where I live,” he told Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone recently when asked when he thinks he will have his day in court.

Larson is one of over 65- thousand drivers in Hillsborough County alone who, since August, was cited after new school bus cameras captured him passing a school bus while it was stopped for kids.

Watch full report from Katie LaGrone on school bus cameras

The cameras are part of a new state law that lets districts record drivers who ignore the stop arm sign…

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