Method of providing safety enforcement for school buses
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Abstract
A method for providing for enforcement of school bus safety laws in situations in which a driver of a vehicle near a school bus illegally passes the school bus when it is stopping or stopped and its stop-sign arm is deployed and/or emergency signals are on. The method provides a process for identifying and documenting with live streaming video a violation of school bus safety law as it occurs, documenting and preserving the evidence, presenting the evidence of an alleged violation to law enforcement authorities for determination of whether the case should be pursued, processing a citation or civil assessment to obtain payment of a fine or assessment, providing for the alleged violator to review the video and other evidence of the alleged violation, and providing for the payment of the fine or assessment.
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23 Claims
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I_we. I/we claim:
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1. A method for providing enforcement of school bus safety laws, comprising the steps of:
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(i) emplacing a plurality of video cameras on the left external side of a school bus; (ii) setting the area of coverage of view and the focus of said external video cameras to record vehicles, including license plates, on any lanes of any roads on which said school bus is operated to the extent vehicles traveling in said lanes are prohibited from passing while said school bus is stopping or stopped; (iii) connecting said external video cameras electronically to an on-bus server; (iv) providing a communications transmission device using commercial wireless media or other communications media; (v) providing live streaming video from said external video cameras transmitted using a commercial wireless media system or other communications media system to a computer at a monitoring station during the time said school bus is transporting, picking up, or discharging students; (vi) displaying said live streaming video on a monitoring screen at the monitoring station; (vii) providing a trained person to monitor the live streaming video received from a plurality of one to 12 school buses at the monitoring station; (viii) said trained person monitoring said live streaming video; (ix) identifying a potential violation of school bus safety laws; (x) designating, recording, and archiving portions of said video evidencing a potential violation; (xi) identifying the registered owner of the vehicle using an internet search engine to search government and/or public records; (xii) preparing an affidavit or similar instrument reporting the time, location and activities constituting the potential violation, and signing it in front of a notary; (xiii) selecting and assembling portions of said video showing the potential violation; and (xiv) electronically forwarding a copy of the affidavit, archived video, and photographs of a vehicle allegedly violating a school bus safety law and of its license plate to an appropriate law enforcement agency. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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