Faulty paperwork last year led to the blanket dismissal of thousands of violations from school-bus cameras in Miami-Dade, but the cited drivers never got word they were off the hook, according to a new audit on the suspended safety program.
Before the BusPatrol camera program was suspended last year for doling out questionable violations, the private company running the operation was also mailing out violations with faulty information. Those errors — which had some tickets showing a lower fine than the $344 required by Florida law and others bearing the wrong ticket numbers — resulted in a Miami-Dade judge wiping out 5,400 violations last spring that drivers were fighting in court.
The school-system audit made public this week said drivers never got notice of the good news because nobody mailed them notices that the judge ruled their way. (People who want to check to see if they have a citation in the Miami-Dade court system can search their names on the agency’s website. The bus-camera violations that were mailed out last year do not enter the court system until they’re converted to citations.)…