ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Allentown Police Chief Charles Roca voiced support last week for a public-facing dashboard for school bus stop-arm camera data — a transparency tool that would offer new visibility into BusPatrol, the private company that equips school buses with automated cameras to record drivers who illegally pass them.
The dashboard, he said, would likely include only month-to-month data, not real-time data, but even that level of detail would represent a significant change for a system that has operated largely out of public view.
“It’s important to build the right dashboard,” Roca said in a lengthy interview Tuesday. “It would probably have to be something in collaboration with BusPatrol … because they receive the ultimate data.”…