Thursday 21 June 2012

Teens Bully Grandmother: Caught on Mobile Video Surveillance Camera

The video is heartbreaking: a pack of junior high boys berating a 68-year-old school bus monitor in upstate New York. She's brought to tears as the students pepper her with profane put-downs about her weight, age, livelihood and more.
"You're not sweating?" one kid asks her. "Why's there water down your face?"
"I'm crying," she responds.
"She probably misses her box of Twinkies," taunts another boy.



Friday 1 June 2012

Why Plug & Play Mobile video Surveillance makes logical sense in saving money



The traditional mobile video surveillance solutions on the market today involves a DVR (basically a computer hard-drive) placed under a drivers seat and wires running within side the bulkhead to a fixed camera mounted on the vehicle ceilling. The problem with this approach is that the DVR is hard to access if you need to retrieve the video and their is extra cost for installing (ranging from $150-$250 per vehicle). Also you need the same set-up for every vehicle in your fleet which become extremely expensive. Traditional video technology is quite old now and the picture quality is quite low resulting in details of faces being lost, hence you need to install more cameras. Costs for Traditional mobile video surveillance systems and installation range from $1200 -$2400.

Plug & Play mobile video surveillance solutions (from tt-i) offer fleet managers an alternative modern approach to the problem of mobile video surveillance. Firstly HD quality video gives clean crisp images so nothing is vague and allows for zooming in without image break-up. Plug & Play as its name suggests means anyone can install quickly and easily without technical knowledge. It also means you can move the cameras to other vehicles, thus reducing costs and making your budget go further. If needed you can add more than one camera to a vehicle very easily.

Some Plug & Play solutions include built in screens for easy camera positioning, built in GPS for vehicle tracking, speed monitoring, driver alarm triggers on video, time stamps, motion detection, multiple mounting options such as screen and bulkhead mounts, Video is stored on SD cards which eliminates moving parts and is more reliable than traditional hard-drives and further reduces your costs.These high end solutions start at only $295 for a HD 1 camera solution with built in motion detection and go up-to $899 for the new Buddy BX4000 4 camera package being launched at the end of June 2012.

Technology changes so quickly so why invest in expensive video equipment that in a few years will be out of date i.e hardrives, connectors, GPS, video quality, viewing software etc. With Plug & Play solutions you can have the latest new camera technology every 2-3 years and it will still be cheaper than buying traditional approaches that you are stuck with and as time goes by they become more difficult to support and use.i.e no manufacturer in the world makes video tapes any more, CD's (Hard-drives) are being replaced by digital.

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Its time for a different approach


Driver blames crash on sleep apnea, steering problems


TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. — A school bus driver who crashed into a concrete post on Feb. 28 claims that her sleep apnea and bus mechanical problems may have contributed to the crash, the Journal & Courier reports.
Beverly Turner, 44, was recently diagnosed with sleep apnea and had experienced daytime sleepiness for as much as a year before the crash. Initially, Turner blamed her daytime drowsiness on the water pill she had to take with her blood pressure medication, but the crash prompted her to look further into her symptoms.
Turner also claimed to have reported steering problems on her bus to Tippecanoe School Corp. in early 2012, but officials said there were no records of her report, according to the Journal and Courier.
As SBF previously reported, Turner was fired after investigators determined that she fell asleep at the wheel of her bus and caused the accident. Eight students were taken to the hospital after the crash.


Texting involved in School bus, car head-on

Posted: May 17, 2012 7:06 AM PDTUpdated: May 20, 2012 2:49 PM PDT
COLQUITT COUNTY, GA -
A teen driver and her 16-month-old baby are recovering Thursday night after crashing into a school bus head on outside of Moultrie.
It's a story we broke in an email alert Thursday morning.  Troopers say 18-year-old Mandy Lynn Davidson was texting and driving on Highway 37, a mile west of Moultrie, when she crossed the center line and hit a school bus head on. 
There were no children on the bus, but several people were injured.
This is what remains of 18-year-old Davidson's Lincoln Town Car after she hit an oncoming school bus as she was taking her 16-month-old son, Jonathan Conner, to daycare.
"This morning I was getting up and I just heard a loud bam! I came outside and looked. Didn't really see anything then I came down the step I saw the car," said onlooker Ken Bailey.
Georgia State Patrol troopers said Davidson was distracted by a text message when she swerved into oncoming traffic and hit the bus.


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Funding cuts prompt Calif. district to eliminate transportation department

By Kelly Roher


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7 students receive home detention for bus beating

OCALA, Fla. — Five girls and two boys appeared in court on Saturday for allegedly severely beating a 13-year-old girl on a school bus, leaving the girl hospitalized, OCALA.com reports.
Judge Frances King released the youths to their parents and placed them on home detention. They had been arrested and charged with felony battery and disorderly conduct.
The victim told deputies that it was her first day on the bus and no one would give her a seat. Someone threw a shoe at her, and when she threw it back, she was attacked by several people.
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A new anti-bullying law before Gov. John Kasich would require schools to address bullying that happens on school buses. It's a move a Muskingum County family said is very needed.
The Jessica Logan Act was passed by the legislature Wednesday and goes to Gov. Kasich's desk within the next month to be signed. The legislation is named after a Cincinnati teenager who committed suicide after cyber bullying.
The legislation that goes before the governor is a weaker form of the legislation which as originally proposed in the legislature asked for schools to be responsible for bullying even if it occurred off school grounds if it had a substantial impact on school activities.
The legislation that goes before the governor is a weaker form of the legislation which as originally proposed in the legislature asked for schools to be responsible for bullying even if it occurred off school grounds if it had a substantial impact on school activities.
Among the changes proposed by the Jessica Logan Act, schools would be required to provide "age appropriate" education to students on bullying, have a policy that handles cyber bullying and address bullying that happens on school buses.
"It was horrible. I had so much anxiety. I was scared. I didn't want to send him on the bus," said Christina Phillips who lives in Philo, Ohio.
Her son, 8-year-old Cayleb, has autism. She said that last school year when Cayleb was in kindergarten he was repeatedly bullied by a group of boys on his school bus.
Phillips said at first her son sat at the back of the bus. She said the bus driver had difficulty seeing in the back of the bus, complicated by the fact Cayleb was short so he could not be seen over the seat.
Eventually, Phillips said, the driver moved Cayleb to the front of the bus where there was a camera. But Phillips said the camera was unable to see or film the first two rows of the bus where her son sat.
Cayleb has a now 11-year-old aunt, Adreana, who used to ride the school bus with him. Adreana said she tried to stand up for her nephew, but she could not fend off the bullies. And when she told adults, she said, they ignored her.
"I told the bus driver but she didn't believe me because she had no proof about it because they couldn't see the people up in front of the cameras," Adreana said.
Phillips said the school district told her they had investigated and that no bullying was occurring but her son and sister continued to report the problem to her. She said she also saw a change in her son's behavior. Eventually, she said, forced by the bullying problem, she moved her son to another school district where he is happy now.
Phillips said she believes the Jessica Logan Act would have helped her son and said districts need to take more responsibility for what happens on school buses. She said she would like to see more aides placed on buses to ride along and monitor students as well as more education for drivers on how to handle bullies. She said she also hopes the Jessica Logan Act will be signed into law.
"I think it's great. I mean I think the school should be held accountable...these kids are getting hurt. There's kids killing themselves over bullying. Something needs to be done," Phillips said.
Critics say the bill goes too far by addressing school buses, relinquishing parents of their responsibility to handle how students behave off school grounds.

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