Las Vegas Mom Sues CCSD Over Son Lost Twice on Bus

A Las Vegas mother has filed a lawsuit against the Clark County School District, alleging that her second-grade son was lost not once but twice on CCSD school buses within a six-month span, leaving him wandering city streets alone on at least one occasion. Kris Robinson says her son Kameron, who was 7 years old and attended Darnell Elementary, was misplaced on a bus in August 2024 and again in February 2025, according to the lawsuit. Robinson filed the lawsuit in Clark County District Court in August 2026, as first reported by 8 News Now. According to the lawsuit, the first incident occurred in August 2024, when an Amazon driver found Kameron roaming the streets nearly a mile from his designated drop-off stop. Robinson said school officials gave her no answers about her son's whereabouts in the aftermath, and she has said the incident was traumatic for her family. Just six months later, Kameron was reportedly misplaced again. On February 5, 2025, a power outage caused students to be bused from Northwest Career and Technical Academy, and the Darnell Elementary principal alerted parents that day that students would be rerouted through that campus. It was during this disruption that Kameron's father texted Robinson that their son had again ended up on the wrong school bus. Robinson said school officials had an hour to respond and that the delay was unacceptable. The lawsuit states that where Kameron was eventually found the second time is not specified. Robinson has said she came to mistrust Darnell Elementary staff, and the lawsuit claims she has not received answers or a formal report from the district about either incident. Robinson ultimately enrolled Kameron in a different school. CCSD has said student safety is its top priority, but the district has also said it could not discuss details of pending legal matters. The lawsuit's claims echo a broader, recurring problem: a school bus driver shortage has led to service problems across the district, which currently reports 95 school bus driver vacancies. This is not the first time CCSD has faced legal action over a child left unsupervised by its transportation system. In February 2025, the district faced a separate negligence lawsuit after a Howard Wasden Elementary School kindergarten student was placed on the wrong bus and dropped off alone in an unfamiliar neighborhood, illustrating what appears to be a recurring pattern of alleged busing errors involving young elementary students. District trustees have taken steps to address the vacancies. The CCSD Board of School Trustees formally designated special education bus drivers and bus driver trainees as Critical Labor Shortage positions from July 2024 through June 2026, a move that allows retired personnel to be re-employed under NVPERS statutory rules to help fill gaps. Ahead of the 2026-2027 school year, CCSD reported reaching near-100% staffing stability districtwide, crediting federal and state transit grants used to bolster driver retention pay, according to the Nevada Globe. The scale of CCSD's operation helps explain why even a small error rate can produce headline-grabbing incidents. The district operates the nation's largest public school bus fleet, running over 1,930 district-owned buses that covered approximately 21 million miles during the 2022-2023 school year while maintaining an accident rate below one incident per 100,000 miles, as Hoodline has previously reported. Nevada law already requires layers of oversight meant to prevent exactly this kind of incident. Under Nevada Revised Statute 386.820, school districts must mandate annual school bus safety instruction programs for all enrolled pupils from preschool through fourth grade who ride buses. State safety guidelines also require bus drivers to perform vehicle safety inspections before every shift, while the Nevada Highway Patrol conducts mandatory inspections on school buses twice a year, according to Washoe County School District guidance that mirrors statewide standards. To help families track their children's routes in real time, CCSD maintains a mobile app called CCSD OnBoard, which provides live bus location tracking, arrival alerts, and schedule updates through the district's Transportation Department. It remains unclear from the lawsuit whether that tool was in use, or would have helped, during either incident involving Kameron. Robinson's case adds to a string of transportation controversies that have dogged CCSD this year, including a March 2026 lawsuit involving a school bus and an e-scooter rider that Hoodline covered, and complaints in August about a broken air conditioning unit that left kids on a 35-minute bus ride in 110-degree heat. Taken together, the incidents suggest that even as the district touts improved staffing numbers, individual failures in tracking and communicating about students' whereabouts remain a significant liability for families and for CCSD alike.