GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Thousands of students will be riding school buses Monday as the rest of metro Atlanta and parts of Georgia head Back 2 School.
But Channel 2 Action News learned drivers are still not stopping for school buses and that has school officials taking further action.
More than 1,900 school buses will be on the road in Gwinnett County, which is the state's largest district. Over the summer, they installed the last of the 300 stop-arm cameras on school buses that run throughout the county.
In just the first semester activated, they've caught thousands of violations.
The cameras see all, catching more than 12,000 citations from January through May.
Police officers go through videos of the violations. In one example, at least eight vehicles passed by a stopped school bus on Singleton Road more than 10 seconds after the stop arm came down and the red lights started flashing.
The majority of violations have been on multi-lane roads, like on Jimmy Carter Boulevard.
The 300 cameras are across Gwinnett County in every cluster.
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"[The cameras will be] on buses that drive very busy roads, in terms of multi-lane roads. Also on buses that drive through your neighborhood," said Sloan Roach with Gwinnett County Public Schools.
The district was discouraged not to see the number of violations start dropping in the spring. The hope is more cameras will make drivers become more aware and students will become safer.
"We want them to have a very safe first day and school year. And it begins with them getting on the bus safely," said Gwinnett School police officer Jennifer Presley.