Miami-Dade Public Schools announced the resumption of a controversial school bus safety program that was abruptly ended last year because flaws in the system resulted in thousands of drivers facing citations they were unable to appeal.
The program — a collaboration between the school district, the sheriff’s office and a private company called Bus Patrol — started in May 2024 when Bus Patrol installed camera systems on the district’s fleet of school buses to catch drivers illegally passing stopped school buses with extended stop arms.
A Miami Herald/Tributary investigation found that many Miami-Dade drivers were ticketed by the school district’s bus safety program thought they’d done nothing wrong. They were driving on the opposite side of a raised median from a stopped school bus. That’s legal, but they got the $225 ticket anyway…