[jo6gwb]

Look up the history of this company, bus patrol - they're felons and in prison.

[tristor]

I read a few different articles such as https://www.thenewspaper.com/news/67/6717.asp and https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/corrupt-public-official-sen...

It seems like it's not BusPatrol, but a company they acquired (Force Multiplier Solutions) that had corrupt leadership. I'm not sure how exactly that went down, or if the same people are still involved, but it does sound pretty bad. Apparently the corruption here caused the Dallas County Schools to go bankrupt and ultimately to be shut down and the school district split into other surrounding districts to take over.

[senkora]

This is the first that I'm hearing about this, but I don't think that your telling is quite right. The Dallas school district is "Dallas ISD", not Dallas County Schools.

Dallas County Schools was apparently a school bus service provider that served many different school districts in the area. I don't know why they named it that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_County_Schools

That situation looks pretty bad, but what happened was that a public school bus services provider went bankrupt, the school districts that it served became responsible for finding private replacement service providers, and residents of the service area had their property taxes raised to pay off the debt.

No school districts went bankrupt or were split up, just school bus service providers.

[tristor]

Ah, I had misunderstood this based on the first article saying that "Dallas County Schools" went bankrupt and was dissolved via a voter referendum. Based on its name and the apparent requirement of a vote, I had understood this intuitively to be a school district. Thanks for the clarification.

[dismalaf]

Who'd have thought a bus company would run buses for the various applications that buses are used for.

[cf100clunk]

That point-of-view doesn't soothe anyone alarmed by expansion of warrantless law enforcement surveillance.

[dismalaf]

Anyone can record anything in public in the US, for better or worse. Change the laws if you think it's a problem.

[em-bee]

laws are changed by recognizing that people are unhappy with the current ones. people show that by being alarmed about things they are unhappy with.

[alistairSH]

TIL - the purpose of buses is mass surveillance. SMH.

[buellerbueller]

I guess once someone is a felon, they should never be allowed income? You might be right to criticize the company itself, but is their specific felonious behavior problematic (if so, you haven't spelled that out)? The way you say it, just the fact of them being felons is the problem.

[NDlurker]

Never being allowed income and getting contracts for mass surveillance are not the same thing.

[Bender]

Perhaps not managing AI camera systems that track children. There are plenty of other career options.

[buellerbueller]

>There are plenty of other career options.

No, not really, for felons.

>Perhaps not managing AI camera systems that track children.

Literal think of the children lol.