The district recognizes its continuing responsibility to maintain and improve discipline and to help ensure the health, welfare and safety of its staff and students on school transportation vehicles.
After having weighed carefully and balanced the rights of privacy of students with the district’s duty to ensure discipline, health, welfare and safety of staff and students on school transportation vehicles, the district supports the use of video cameras on its transportation vehicles.
Video cameras may be used to monitor student behavior on school vehicles transporting students to and from school or extracurricular activities.
Students in violation of the district’s student conduct and discipline policies or other bus conduct rules shall be subject to disciplinary action in accordance with applicable district policy and regulations.
The superintendent or designee shall maintain regulations governing the use of video cameras on school transportation vehicles and retention of video recordings in accordance with applicable law and district policy.
Adopted: Prior to 2017
Revised: June 2017
Revised: September 2020
LEGAL REFS.: 20 U.S.C. 1232g (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974)
34 C.F.R. 99.1 et seq. (FERPA regulations)
C.R.S. 24-72-113 (limit on retention of passive surveillance records)
CROSS REFS.:
Administrative policies:
JIC, Student Conduct, and subcodes
JK, Student Discipline, and subcodes
JRA/JRC, Student Records/Release of Information on Students
Lake County School District R-1, Leadville, Colorado