After weeks of warnings, Duval County School Police are preparing to begin full enforcement of a new stop arm bus camera program in partnership with BusPatrol America. Starting Friday, drivers caught illegally passing a stopped school bus will be fined $225.
The move comes after a 30-day public awareness campaign that school leaders say revealed just how often drivers are ignoring school bus stop arms.
From April 1st through April 21st, school police reviewed 803 potential violations captured by AI-powered cameras installed on hundreds of buses across the district. Out of those, 194 were disapproved, while 609 warnings were mailed to drivers…