{"id":60,"date":"2007-03-31T01:02:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T01:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/cctv-on-school-buses\/"},"modified":"2007-03-31T01:03:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T01:03:13","slug":"cctv-on-school-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/cctv-on-school-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"CCTV On School Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinf.com\" title=\"Alternative News\">Pam Caulfield and Michael Meaney<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Pupils\u00a0could be under increased surveillance\u00a0if\u00a0a proposed school transport shake-up goes ahead.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.24dash.com\/_images\/news\/18613\/m_school_bus.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"CCTV could be set for Leicester school buses \" height=\"90\" style=\"width: 150px; height: 90px\" title=\"CCTV could be set for Leicester school buses \" \/>Leicestershire County Council is looking at the idea of more CCTV on school buses, as part of a review of transport spending. The Council is consulting on proposals to reduce the \u00a39 million per year it currently spends on home to school and college transport &#8211; \u00a37 million of which comes from Council Tax.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">If the proposals are approved it could include portable CCTV sets, which can be switched to buses on different routes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Ivan Ould, the Cabinet\u2019s member for Children and Young People\u2019s Services, said: \u201cAlthough we don\u2019t have a major problem with misbehaviour on school buses, some parents and pupils have expressed concern about it.<\/font><font size=\"2\">\u201cThese proposals will help to tackle the issue and may well help to encourage more pupils to use school transport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that as many Leicestershire residents as possible express their views on these proposals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pam Caulfield and Michael Meaney Pupils\u00a0could be under increased surveillance\u00a0if\u00a0a proposed school transport shake-up goes ahead. Leicestershire County Council is looking at the idea of more CCTV on school buses, as part of a review of transport spending. The Council is consulting on proposals to reduce the \u00a39 million per year it currently spends on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614],"tags":[30],"class_list":{"0":"post-60","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"tag-big-brother"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}