Miami-Dade School District audit<\/a>, released in February, found that drivers contested 8,172 tickets, but the program lacked a process for court or administrative hearings, leaving those cases in limbo.<\/p>\nThe Miami-Dade Police Department was the initial agency that enforced the program, but it was replaced by the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office in January 2025. Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz suspended the program a few months after taking office amid complaints.<\/p>\n
The Miami-Dade program was relaunched in May, with the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office dismissing unresolved cases and making changes related to enforcement and appeals.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve done our due diligence over the past year to really analyze all the contract languages, all the issues that many school districts around the country have had,\u201d Hepburn said after Tuesday\u2019s meeting, \u201cand our legal team have done a good job in making sure those issues aren\u2019t in our current contract,.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another challenge Broward schools faced was finding a law enforcement agency to review the camera footage. Under state law, an agency that serves the entire county must conduct the reviews. In Broward, that\u2019s the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office, but it declined to devote its own personnel. So the district entered into an interlocal agreement with the Sheriff\u2019s Office that will allow school district police to review the footage instead of BSO personnel.<\/p>\n
That agreement was approved Tuesday, along with the BusPatrol contract and an agreement with the state\u2019s Division of Administrative Hearings to hear appeals.<\/p>\n
Hepburn said BusPatrol will pay for police officers to review the video, as well as the cost of appeals hearings. BusPatrol will then keep $140 of every $225 ticket issued, while the district gets to keep $85. Under state law, the district\u2019s revenues can be used for student transportation safety enhancements and initiatives, as well as school bus driver recruitment and retention.<\/p>\n
Board member Allen Zeman said he would have preferred to see the district keeping a larger share of revenues from citations. But he said he thinks the program is a great idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is going to create a greater enforcement of an existing law,\u201d Zeman said. \u201cYou\u2019re not allowed to pass the bus with the arm out. Everybody knows that, but they still do it. It\u2019s very unsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broward drivers who illegally pass a stopped school bus will soon face $225 fines thanks to a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[113,249,251,250,266,115,109,32797],"class_list":["post-301792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-education","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-social","tag-south-florida-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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School Board member Dr. Allen Zeman discusses a School Bus Infraction Detection System before voting to approve the item during a Broward County School Board workshop at the Kathleen C. Wright Administration Center in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (Amy Beth Bennett \/ South Florida Sun Sentinel)<\/p>\n