Clovis Unified upgraded cameras on its school buses giving them quicker access to video

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Cameras are always rolling as more than 160 Clovis Unified buses transport thousands of students everyday.

In the past, when an incident occurred, administrators would have to wait for the bus to return to the yard before they could access the video.

Chief Technology Office Raj Nagra says now that they've upgraded the cameras, that's all changed.

"So there's nobody watching the cameras all the time, but when they need to go look at a camera, now they can pretty much do that instantaneously. It doesn't matter if the bus is on or off," Nagra said.

The cameras are cloud connected with artificial intelligence and work through security platform Verkada.

Video is constantly uploading to the cloud, and administrators can look live at any bus from an app or a compute