Law / United States / 
Missouri
Missouri school bus safety cameras: school board approval, permanent deletion within 180 days of images not used for enforcement, and no use for automated traffic enforcement
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Retention, Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a Missouri school district that installs or operates school bus safety cameras on school buses to detect violations of section 304.050, have the use approved by a vote of the school district board of directors (subsection 1).
- Permanently delete any image or video recorded by a school bus safety camera that is not used to enforce violations of section 304.050 no later than one hundred eighty days from the date of capture (subsection 1).
- If you are a political subdivision, do not use an image or video captured by a school bus safety camera for violation detection or enforcement as part of any automated camera system designed to detect traffic violations and issue citations (subsection 2).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does the one hundred eighty day deletion deadline in section 160.3300.1 reach an image or video held by a vendor that operates a district's school bus safety cameras, when the subsection speaks of any image or video recorded by the camera and names no custodian?
What record it asks for
Log retention
The one hundred eighty days run from the date of capture and cap how long an image or video that is not used to enforce violations of section 304.050 may be kept. An image or video that is used for that enforcement is outside the cap.
- Unit
- Days
- As of
- Basis
- Fixed
- Runs from
- From each record's own date
- Conditional
- Yes
- Maximum value
- 180
Logging duty
The section requires school bus safety camera images and video that are not used for enforcement to be deleted within one hundred eighty days of capture. It imposes no duty to keep a log, names no audit and gives no party a right to a record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
A school district may install and operate school bus safety cameras on school buses to detect violations of section 304.050, provided the school district board of directors approves the use by a vote. Any image or video recorded by a school bus safety camera that is not used to enforce violations of section 304.050 must be permanently deleted no later than one hundred eighty days from the date of capture.
A school bus safety camera is a device affixed to a school bus that records photographs, microphotographs or electronic images of the front or rear of a vehicle at the time the vehicle is detected for an infraction identified in section 304.050.
No political subdivision may use an image or video captured by a school bus safety camera for violation detection or enforcement as part of any automated camera system designed to detect traffic violations and issue citations, and a prosecutor may still introduce such an image or video as evidence in a judicial proceeding. Section 160.3300 was enacted by Senate Bill 1421 of 2026. Section 160.3300 has been in effect since .
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