MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla – Miami-Dade County has halted its school bus camera citation program due to discrepancies in the ticket amounts issued by BusPatrol America, the vendor responsible for the program. The errors were discovered by county officials.
The suspension of the program was announced by Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz, alongside Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts Juan Fernandez-Barquin and Chief Judge Nushin Sayfie, on Thursday, as reported by News 6 partner WPLG.
“The integrity of how we enforce our laws must never be undermined,” Cordero-Stutz said.
Introduced last year in collaboration with Miami-Dade Public Schools and BusPatrol, the initiative was designed to identify and penalize drivers who unlawfully pass stopped school buses with the help of automated cameras.
But officials say some citations sent to drivers listed incorrect penalty amounts, causing confusion and the potential for license suspensions.
“Effective immediately, we are suspending the BusPatrol citation program, and no additional citations will be issued under this program from today forward,” Cordero-Stutz said.
The issue centers on two types of notices: NOVs, or Notices of Violation, and UTCs, or Uniform Traffic Citations.
If a driver ignored the $225 NOV, they were issued a UTC. But according to Fernandez-Barquin, the UTCs incorrectly listed the fine as $225, when it should have been $344.
In March, News 6 reported that a Volusia County man was issued a $225 fine when someone riding a scooter was caught on camera illegally passing a stopped school bus in Miami Beach.
Despite not visiting Miami-Dade County recently, Ray Shover received a violation notice in the mail stating that the scooter’s license plate matched the tag number of a motorcycle registered in his name.
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