Halton Hills Newspapers

Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 26 Sep 2019, p. 4

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th ei fp .c a Th e IF P -H al to n H ill s | T hu rs da y, S ep te m be r 26 ,2 01 9 | 4 Limit 3 per person, per day. Only at this location. Excludes delivery and mobile orders. ©2019 McDonald's Big Mac® or Quarter Pounder with Cheese® September 30 - October 6 at 185 Guelph St.$3 only EACH PLUS TAX consider. Once the review is complete, parents will be advised that the cameras are being turned on, she said. An email sent to parents and guardians of students at the end of the school year last June stated that per- sonal information record- ed by the cameras - which will record while students are entering and exiting the buses and while en route - is collected under the authority of the Educa- tion Act and in compliance with the Municipal Free- dom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. "School buses are an ex- tension of the school day and the students are re- sponsible to the principal for their behaviour on the bus," said Karen Lacroix, general manager, Halton Student Transportation Services. There has been a tempo- rary delay in activating school bus video surveil- lance cameras, a practice that was supposed to begin with the new school year. Both the Halton District School Board (HDSB) and the Halton Catholic Dis- trict School Board (HCDSB) have adjusted their school video surveil- lance policies to include the school bus environ- ment. "The delay in turning on the cameras is because we are waiting for the infor- mation privacy commis- sioner (IPC) to finalize a re- view of our practice," said HDSB communication manager Marnie Denton, adding the board hoped the review would be complete by now. The IPC may make some recommendations, which the board would want to EDUCATION VIDEO SURVEILLANCE ON SCHOOL BUSES DELAYED MISS ACTON FALL FAIR Miss Acton Fall Fair Sydney Furzer (centre) is joined by first runner up Briana Chen (right) and second runner up Grace Byers during the annual event at Prospect Park. Melanie Hennessey/Torstar COMMINITY

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