Damaged bus seats can be unsightly, offensive, expensive to repair or replace, and dangerous if the person vandalizes them and removes the protective foam that covers the steel frame. Once removed, this creates a severe safety hazard to the bus's passengers and legal liability to the school district or bus company should there be an accident or injury.
School Bus Video Camera systems can document and, in some cases, deter those who would or were planning to damage and vandalize the seats of a bus by adding something that is missing in the bus passenger transport dynamic, accountability, and expert witness verification in high definition.

The problem is a perceived lack of accountability by passengers when riding on the bus. This perceived lack of accountability is compounded by the reality that they can do things they know are wrong, often over and over, and there is no consequence for their negative behaviors. In some cases, the passengers abusing and vandalizing the bus seats are actually encouraged by others to engage in this destructive behavior. Peer pressure and a gang mentality can combine to motivate normally well-behaving people to do some really bad things.

Some Special Needs Wheel Chair Bus Camera Systems offer a solution in bus transportation environments that are ripe for this type of abuse due to the animosity of the passengers toward the company or authority transporting them in the first place.
For example, the below applications are now in use for our systems due to a need for them based on the destructive behaviors of the passengers on those buses:

School Bus Video Child Safety Cameras - are incorporated to help document the bad behaviors and destructive vandalism subjected upon the bus in charter bus contractor applications where they are transporting children under government contracts.


Private Contractor Charter School Bus Cameras - are incorporated to help document the bad behaviors and destructive vandalism subjected upon the bus from students who seek to act in some destructive manner, cutting or writing on seats. These same systems can also document instances of bullying and criminal acts of abuse, drug, and sex crimes occurring on school buses daily.


Prison Bus Video Security Cameras - are incorporated to document the safe transport of inmates and prisoners from facility to facility by law enforcement officers.
Those in custody do not wish to be part of the criminal justice system and are often looking to take out their anger and frustration on anything that reminds them that their bad choices in life got them to this point.
Inmates and prisoners often accuse the officers of transporting them of some type of abuse or mishandling of them in order to seek some remedy for their situation. The false statements they make against officers can be disputed or validated by the expert digital video witness in the form of the DVR recorded video files. The cameras that record their bad behaviors are often themselves targeted for abuse, with some hitting the cameras with their fists, kicking them, or taking their shoes off and trying to smash the cameras, which is why in the police applications, we also offer the steel camera cages to protect them from those added assaults.


Casino Bus Video Observation Cameras - are incorporated to help document the bad behaviors and destructive vandalism subjected to the free casino pickup and return bus service operated in areas by casinos to help make transport to and from their casino easier and safer for their customer who chooses to drink the often free complimentary adult beverages while on those sites. The return trip home is where most of the problems occur as the passengers may be broke, drunk, and feel in some way taken advantage of even though they choose to gamble their money away; they may be bitter, angry, and wish to take out their remorse on the company property such as the transport bus seats, and windows.


Paratransit Medicaid Shuttle Bus Cameras - are incorporated to help document the potential damage to the seats from those being transported to and from medical treatment facilities who may have behavioral issues and damage the seats of the transportation buses.


Alternative School & Juvenile Detention Bus Security Cameras - document the activities, incidents, and events of the transport of children who in the past had demonstrated violent or behavioral tendencies and needed to be separated from other children in the transport to school.


Transportation Ministry Youth Activities Church Bus Camera Systems - are incorporated to ensure safe verifiable supervision of the church youths for church-related activities. This maintains a level of oversight to both instill confidence and trust in the transportation and good stewardship.


Cameras for school buses are an excellent management tool to document, verify or dispute allegations made of events that occur on school buses. They can document who did what to the bus seats, which is to blame for vandalism and damage, whom to hold accountable for those damages, and the cost to repair or replace damaged components, like seat covers.


Head Start Pre-K Pre-School Nursery School Child Safety Bus Camera Recorder systems can help monitor the activities of the very young children transported to these early school or post-school transports activities to help ensure they do not damage the seats of the buses used for these services.


Before & After Care School, Child Day Care Pickup In-vehicle Shuttle Safety Cameras likewise provide the management oversight tool when events occur in transports of the very young, as well as providing an overt demonstration that they are being monitored, which in some cases can assist the very young in acting responsibility.

Their likelihood of intentional damage to bus seats should decline when they can see the recording devices in front of them that will monitor their actions.




Should you have any questions or concerns or require more information about various applications or School Bus Video Camera system configurations, we encourage you to let us know, and we will be happy to offer our 30+ years of market experience in sales and service of digital recording devices to respond to your concerns or questions.