Six months after the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s office suspended the school bus safety program – a collaboration between the school district, the sheriff’s office and BusPatrol – the school board is still trying to piece together a way forward for the program.
Meanwhile, the vendor has enlisted the help of two well-connected local lobbyists.
The push to salvage Miami-Dade’s school bus safety camera program – and resolve a backlog of thousands of contested citations – was the topic of an hours-longconversation at a Wednesday committee meeting. At the meeting, school board member Danny Espino proposed contracting with the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings, based in Tallahassee, which uses administrative law judges to hear challenges to traffic citations virtually. Hillsborough County already uses the model…