Do school administrators share the school bus cameras’ information with the police?
This depends on the school district and any direction or advice they may receive from the DA or school board legal representatives. In general, the files are kept within the district unless there are criminal matters that a judge for use in court or during an arbitration might subpoena.

We encourage school districts to maintain a policy of not offering video clips to those outside the school district staff as the video clips contain audio files, and in some cases the audio tract can become a legal distraction to what occurred in the vehicle.

Management of risk in student transportation is an important aspect of why school buses and charter vans have child safety video cameras operating within them.
Alternative School & Juvenile Detention Bus Security Cameras help protect the district and drivers of the vehicles from false claims that could be made by problem students with past behavioral issues, by providing expert digital eye witness for a safe vision of what actually happened on a transport.

Before & After Care School Child Day Care Pickup In-vehicle Shuttle Safety Cameras help those public and private charter student transportation companies protect themselves from lawsuits from claims that might be made against their drivers of their companies.

Head Start  Pre-K Pre-School Nursery School Child Safety Bus Camera Recorder systems fall into the same category where you are transporting students, in this case very young children and the liability and risk may be even higher as their perceptions and cognitive abilities can leave their parents guessing about what happened on the trip more then actual young adults.





Do school administrators share the school bus cameras’ information with the media?
Unlike an application that is the most dangerous employee occupation as cited by OSHA in the Forklift HD Industrial Operator Safety Camera Recording Systems application where so many incidents are recorded then later turned into a training video of how not to perform your operator duties and learn form past mistakes, school districts seem to only record those incidents that are an immediate threat or risk from outside sources like parents or other children being transported.
They often save files of incidents on backup drives or on a PC to archive in case they are needed. It is NOT recommended for the staff of the school district to share any video file with anyone outside the district. The video clips of incidents involving children almost always have other non related children within the field of view of the cameras, so it is unwise and not recommended that any video clips are offered to anyone outside the district staff or of course courts or law enforcement with a warrant.





Is there a lock on the school bus cameras’ video files in the bus?
All low cost commercial grade school bus cameras and even the higher cost professional industrial grade pupil student contractor charter bus camera systems employ a security mechanism to protect the video files from unauthorized access by the driver, students or anyone not authorized to see them.
The same issues is experienced in many of the other vehicle video camera applications such as:

5th Wheel King Pin Trailer CS1 Spotter Yard Mule Camera application are often cases where the driver or 5th Wheel Trailer Swapper Yard Mule backs the tractor under the trailers with too fast and the inertia and impact damages to the vehicles and to the locking mechanism of the 5th wheel King Pin.

Police Patrol Wagon Suspect, Prisoner & Inmate in-Custody Transport Camera applications are often required to store video evidence forever, in case the charge of case is reviewed in court in the future. For this reason they often store massive libraries of evidence filled memory storage devices.
School Bus Camera Child Safety Security Systems do not have the same requirements and the much higher cost Department of Corrections HRI, HVP & HVD Prisoner & Inmate in-Custody Transport Cameras that may be incorporated to monitor the transport of High Value Prisoners, High-Value Detainees like terrorists, or High Risk Inmates require a Industrial Grade Vehicle Video Camera Surveillance Solution.
Conversely the Low Cost Affordable School Bus Camera Systems do not have this long term requirement for the storage of evidence so they can recycle the data files on the SD memory card thus saving the school district the high cost of storing memory cards forever.






How are the innocent protected in video files provided to third parties like the police or media?
Both the Low Cost HD School Bus Child Safety Camera systems  as well as the Professional Industrial Grade School Bus Video Surveillance Camera Solutions both employ digital technology solutions that enable them to mask or blur zones on the video playback that will help make children who are not involved in the incident non-recognizable to others during the playback of said files.
This was a technology originally used in the Non-Emergency Medical Transit Camera Surveillance Systems as well as the Elderly Day Care Shuttle & Assisted Living Transportation Vehicle Video Camera to help protect the privacy of the other passengers in case of events. This has now become widespread in use now protecting the privacy of most of the mobile video vehicle camera deriver safety solutions in use.






How long does the memory last in a school bus camera?
The answer to this question is variable and dependent on several application parameters including;
How many cameras are in the vehicle feeding images to the DVR
How many “FPS” (Frames Per Second) is the DVR set to
What is the “Resolution” set to in the DVR menu
What is the memory capacity of your solid state recording storage device
Are DVR channels w/o a camera connected turned off

For example in Elderly Day Care Shuttle & Assisted Living Transportation Vehicle Video Camera applications the vehicle are not frequently used. Unlike school bus video camera systems that operate for hours each day so they may not consume memory as quickly.

Another example in the Non-Emergency Medical Transit Camera Surveillance Systems in contrast may be constantly driving making pickups and deliveries of patents to facilities and thus may consume memory storage much faster. Those public school or private contract carrier Affordable School Bus Camera Systems often purchase the smallest memory storage they can get, only later to find out they want more storage for memory so they can go back weeks or months to review data files.
The SD memory cards are getting lower in cost every year and it makes sense o purchase a SD card that is more then you anticipate, so you do not have to then go buy larger cards in the future and now have wasted funds invested on the smaller SD card.






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