Anonymous wrote:It's not that hard: pay attention when you see that really big, yellow thing with all the flashing lights.

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$858,559 in revenue collected in first 6 months of automated school bus camera tickets

https://www.yahoo.com/news/858-559-revenue-co...first-234045330.html

Anonymous wrote:It's not that hard: pay attention when you see that really big, yellow thing with all the flashing lights.

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Anonymous wrote:Bus is actually waiting on the side of the road and turns the flashing lights and STOP sign as soon as he/she sees the vehicle coming.

Please watch the videos carefully.

I am going to the court to prove it.

Yes. There is no distance calibration on these cameras and no way to see if the bus complied with Maryland law with regard to putting their warning lights on as required. Bus drivers can just flip the stop sign out and video any vehicle that passes so they get a ticket.

School bus drivers are required by State law to turn on flashing yellow lights 100 feet before stopping, and then to
activate their flashing red lights when stopped. If the bus didn't do that the ticket is invalid.

Are school bus drivers given quotas of how many tickets to give out each day?

The vendor can pay off the bus drivers. I remember reading in The Washington Times decades ago that tow truck drivers were bribing cops to issue fake tickets.

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Anonymous wrote:Bus is actually waiting on the side of the road and turns the flashing lights and STOP sign as soon as he/she sees the vehicle coming.

Please watch the videos carefully.

I am going to the court to prove it.

Yes. There is no distance calibration on these cameras and no way to see if the bus complied with Maryland law with regard to putting their warning lights on as required. Bus drivers can just flip the stop sign out and video any vehicle that passes so they get a ticket.

School bus drivers are required by State law to turn on flashing yellow lights 100 feet before stopping, and then to
activate their flashing red lights when stopped. If the bus didn't do that the ticket is invalid.

Are school bus drivers given quotas of how many tickets to give out each day?

Anonymous wrote:This is the second time I received a ticket for "not stopping" although the first showed my Subaru clearly stopped. When I mentioned this, they denied mu Subaru was a Subaru. Then took the photo off the internet. Who is behind this? It is clearly a scam.

Anonymous wrote:Parents' Coalition:

At today's Montgomery County Council hearing on the bus cameras installed on the exterior of MCPS school buses, Montgomery County Police stated that the citations issued to date have generated $21.4 million in fines.

However, when tracking the citation fines paid to Montgomery County, it is only possible to account for $12,086,617.

Which leaves $9.3 million in citation fines unaccounted for in the public documents that track the receipt of these fines.

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Anonymous wrote:My son was scammed by the bus company because I'm the video the idiot bus driver didn't put the stop sign out until after the fact. I believe it was done on purpose and it needs to stop. Stealing from the innocent and it's not correct. Taking a day off of work to fight it is not an option.

Can you redact and post the video?

Now the thread on the arrest of Todd Watkins has been deleted. He was in court today pleading guilty.

Because there is already a thread about that here where you can discuss it. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1015465.page

Nothing there about criminal charges.
But mcps is very happy to delete threads about corruption.