How can you avoid being recorded by a school bus camera?
Hands down the #1 best way to ensure you are never recorded on the bus is to ……wait for it…….not be on the bus.

Granted, Captain Obvious might point out that is not workable for a child who must be on the bus but in reality, ask yourself why you do not want to be recorded on the bus.
There are privacy concerns, but a school bus is government property. While on a government vehicle with a plethora of windows and is filled with strangers, any expectation of privacy is both impractical and irrelevant as, from a legal standpoint, there may be no expectation of privacy on a government public passenger transport vehicle.

Many private passenger transport mobile vehicle camera recorder applications do offer privacy, including:
Paratransit Driver Safety Video Camera Surveillance System
In these applications, passengers are not on government-owned and operated vehicles but usually contractor-provided services.

Forklift HD Industrial Operator Safety Camera System
In many work environments and companies, this employee is a union worker and part of the union employee contract; many restrict audio recordings of the worker even when video cameras are incorporated.

Medicaid Medical Transport In-Vehicle Surveillance
Many medical transport applications involve HEPA guidelines, and some of those might involve privacy in regard to audio recording but the video portion may also be limited.

Taxi & Limo Video Camera Systems
Considering what might happen in a limo, both audio and video privacy is expected, and the often dark windows and privacy panels that separate the driver and passengers indicate that privacy is part of the passenger’s expectations.





What is Masking and what is it used for?
Masking is a feature of the playback software GUI that permits the administrator to block out portions of the video playback that may show people not interested in a particular incident. Imagine if a Students With Disabilities & Special Needs Transportation Video camera-equipped bus captures a student in a wheelchair being harassed in the bus by another student.
The Masking software can be incorporated to blur out all other students to show the 2 people involved in the incident for use by the administration to forward to parents or to law enforcement.

Masking is an important editing tool to protect innocent noninvolved students or passengers when an incident video file must be provided for possible law enforcement or court use in any of the below child transport applications:
Alternative School & Juvenile Detention Bus Security Camera
Before & After Care School Child Day Care Pickup In-vehicle Shuttle Safety Cameras
Transportation Ministry Youth Activities Church Bus Camera System
Head Start  Pre-K Pre-School Nursery School Child Safety Bus Camera Recorder systems




Do bus driver text and drive?
Of course, they do. Sadly many are part of the 92% direct descendants of Neanderthal cave dwellers on the planet. They fall prey to the same digital social addictions as the other idiots in our self-absorbed, narcissistic, fragile, emotionally driven culture who cannot seem to put their smartphones down long enough to navigate an intersection without threatening the life or limb of innocent families.
The vehicle video surveillance security camera recording systems offered by American Bus Video Inc have captured many incidents of driving while texting in multiple applications such as:
Students With Disabilities & Special Needs Transportation Video Camera
Private Service Contractor Charter Transport Compliance Bus Camera System

The only application I have not seen so far that has recorded an incidence of driving while texting is the Forklift HD Industrial Operator Safety Camera Systems equipped applications, and it is likely due to the need for hands-free to operate the equipment that can cause so many employee accidents and injuries.

The Low-Cost HD School Bus Child Safety Camera systems offered by our company are a reasoned solution to the problems of the Driving While Texting (DWT) Epidemic. Bus Cameras and video evidence can be used to train or prosecute those who fail to follow safe driving procedures and violate federal restrictions and laws regarding distracted driving.




Do bus drivers check the bus at the end of the trip for sleeping children?
Part of the bus driver training for most applications and states is the pre-trip and post-trip checkout of the vehicle safety equipment, and after the trip is over, the checking for sleeping or hidden children.
The low, cost Affordable School Bus Camera Systems all integrate a post-ignition timer that keeps the bus camera DVR recording a preset time after the bus is turned off.
This is the same need for some other applications like:
Armored Vehicle VIP Transport Video Camera Systems
Medicaid Medical Transport In-Vehicle Surveillance
Police Patrol Wagon Suspect, Prisoner & Inmate in-Custody Transport Camera

In all of the above applications, there is a requirement for the vehicle mobile video camera recorder to record post-ignition to capture the offloading of passengers, students, or prisoners, depending on the case, to record they were successfully dropped off at the location.


Are school buses locked up at night?
This depends on the policy of the district and often the locations. Some Low-Cost HD School Bus Child Safety Camera systems we sold to a large city school district had criminal activity in the bus at night and on weekends while they sat in a large city parking lot. Some buses were used for drug and sex parties with needles and used condoms left on the seats, and other buses were used by homeless people who were camping out in them at night. In both cases, we provided the district mechanics with a simple means to add a motions sensor to the bus so when the sensor was triggered, the systems began recording to capture who was doing what and, in some cases, what they really did not want to see was captured on the video storage devices for later review by the police.

With the option of the Testudo Lifetime School Bus Camera System Warranty, it is now possible to have the original equipment purchased for the school bus security surveillance camera system to be covered for the life of the bus.
This might be more of an issue with Alternative School & Juvenile Detention Bus Security Camera equipped b use as you are already working with children who have had issues.



Should you have any questions or concerns or require more information about 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.