With the advent of onboard vehicle video camera surveillance systems, it is now possible to quickly handle disputes of he-said-she-said between passengers, school children, or adults on school buses or other Rural Area Ride Share Paratransit Vehicle Camera Recorders

Once viewed on your PC, you can quickly verify or disprove accusations made that someone did or said something on the school bus.

There is the usual tendency to send the proof to the accusing party so that they can see what you see.
In cases like this, it is essential to remember what some claim Marcus Areloius, the great Roman emperor, said about verbal and visual communication.
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

While greater minds can accept or refuse that the Roman Emperor actually said that the truth and wisdom are not lost simply because we cannot trace their origin.
My point is while you tend to see what you want to see in life, viewing events and conversations thought our own specific subjective perspective, so e truths remain and in the case the divgital evidence of what occurs on a school bus or fork lift, or para transit vehicle with a camera equiped upon it may not jump out to your conscious awareness but it is still there.

For example;
Tommy chokes Johnny on the bus, so when the parents get involved, they demand to know if this happened and what the district will do about it.
Administrative staff play the video and focus on what Tommy and Johnny are doing. To provide proof of what happened, they may send a video clip to external staff. This is what can make things more complex.
Video clips of the events on the bus also contain an audio track for the recording or what was said.

In the example of Tommy choking Johnny, what if the driver, trying desperately to ignore the tussle going on with the children he is charged to transport, says something insensitive to get them to sit down and stop distracting him from the duty of driving safely?

A comment made in frustration with no intent, basically hyperbole like “Sit down, you little balankety blanks or I’ll come back there and blankety blank you both,” may be a desperate way to get them to behave.
Any rational person can understand this type of comment made in frustration.
However, parents of children who may not be facing a month of driving their little ones to and from school every day because of this incident may seek any leverage to bargain with.

The audio track can be interrupted in its most literal sense, and a potential threat of violence from the adult driving to the child in question.
This may be used ot negate any discipline or punishment that might be levied on the offending child.

American Bus Video Inc. strongly recommends that all video clips that go outside the agency of the school district be listened to carefully, with no regard for the video displayed, just the audio that can be heard, to ensure their drivers are not making any comments that can be misunderstood by a parent with an agenda.

If proof that Tommy choked Johnny is required, a JPEG screenshot of Tommy with his hands around Johnny's neck should be sufficient to prove the act.
Other applications in the vehicle video camera market may also warrant the same caution when sharing video clips with others.

We have sold many Police Patrol Wagon Suspect, Prisoner & In-Custody Transport Camera systems for large law enforcement agencies, and in almost all licatiosn they eliminate this problem by never installing the audio connection without the officer compartment, so this is not an issue.

When we sell Forklift HD Industrial Operator Safety Camera Systems to large industrial warehouses and materials handling facilities, 2 in the past, some have asked if we can not record audio, as in some places they have union employees, and may be a safeguard so they do not use their cell phones while working and give credit card info or other sensitive details verbally.

Warehouse Yard Jockeys 5th Wheel King Pin Trailer CS1 Spotter Yard Mule Camera equipepd vehicle have some of the same concerns as occasionally when they experience a trailer rollover form a high hitch or unlocked 5th wheel, and the trailer rolls over they may make comments incriminating themselves and again if this is a union site they may not be able ot have their audio recorded for that reason.

Should you have any questions or concerns or require more information about Affordable School Bus Camera Systems or the
Testudo Lifetime System Warranty School Bus Camera Systems, various applications or School Bus Student Transportation Video Camera Recorder configurations, please let us know. We will be happy to offer our 35+ years of market experience in sales and service of digital recording devices to respond to your concerns or questions.