{"id":368593,"date":"2026-08-11T18:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368593\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:04:47","slug":"stop-sign-cameras-have-come-to-broward-school-buses-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368593\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop sign cameras have come to Broward school buses \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drivers beware: Broward school buses are now equipped with cameras<\/a> to catch you going around the stop signs that extend from the side of the buses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bus drivers heartily approve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great, I love driving, I love kids,\u201d said Ricardo La Pompe, a veteran school bus driver. He told us he\u2019s excited about the new technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt helps everybody around the vicinity,\u201d La Pompe said, explaining how crashes happen when cars fail to stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, what the cameras are gonna do is they\u2019re gonna detect anyone who illegally passes the bus,\u201d said Dr. Simone Clowers, the executive director of transportation at Broward County Public Schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Violators will get a $225 ticket in the mail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat extra cash they have, they gonna be spending it now, because sometimes the stop sign comes out and they just fly past,\u201d La Pompe said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clowers says it\u2019s clearly a safety issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe drivers are ecstatic; every year they have to manually calculate this and send it up to the state, so they are ecstatic to know that students are gonna be safer,\u201d Clowers said. \u201cHow can people pass the stop arm when they know students are loading and unloading?\u201d<\/p>\n

Miami-Dade County Public Schools started and then stopped their bus camera program last year when controversies arose over how the citations were issued. They reinstated the initiative, promising that sheriff\u2019s deputies would review each case before tickets were mailed to drivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Broward Schools has the benefit of hindsight. Learning from Miami-Dade\u2019s experience, police officers will inspect each citation before it\u2019s sent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The district is also looking to hire between 60 and 100 bus drivers. Pay starts at $21 per hour. That shortage will affect the 45,000 students who ride the bus every day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lack of resources impacts the students simply because the ride time is longer, when you have less drivers, you have less routes and less buses, so that means there\u2019s more stops in the morning and the afternoon, so the kids are on the bus a little longer than last year or the year before,\u201d Clowers said.<\/p>\n

She recommends parents make sure they know where their child\u2019s bus stop is because it might have changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe beauty of it is, though, our drivers are used to it, when you work for the district, you already know you may have to pivot on a dime so there\u2019s always a challenge making sure you capture all the kids who need your service, but we do it successfully every year and we will do it successfully this year, too,\u201d Clowers explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers beware: Broward school buses are now equipped with cameras to catch you going around the stop signs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[54547,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-368593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-back-to-school","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368593","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=368593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}