As if REAL ID Weren't Enough
By Jill R. Aitoro | Friday, February 01, 2008 | 05:23 PM
By Jill R. Aitoro | Friday, February 01, 2008 | 05:23 PM
States' motor vehicle departments may be in for a treat: Incorporating a national standard for screening applicants in state and federal sex offender registries before issuing driver’s licenses.
The Government Accountability Office released results of a study this week that looked at the impact that such a requirement would have on states, noting that while 22 states use some form of driver’s license-related process to encourage registration or provide additional monitoring of convicted sex offenders, none have screening processes that compare driver’s license applicants’ information against both the state’s sex offender registry and the FBI’s national registry.
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 requires states to collect information about resident sex offenders and submit that information to the attorney general for inclusion in the National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR), maintained by the FBI. Most states’ sex offender registries are centrally maintained by a state criminal justice agency and need to be routinely updated – a challenge because sex offenders move and fail to comply with self-reporting requirements. Screening individuals against a state’s sex offender registry database when applying for or renewing a driver’s license would help solve that problem.
Fair enough, but what kind of burden does that place on states? A substantial one, according to the study. Most of the motor vehicle agencies in the 26 states surveyed said that “moderate to major modifications” to current IT systems would be needed, with major expense accrued from changes to software in particular. Officials in one state said that seven of the motor vehicle agency’s interrelated systems would need extensive software modifications, and officials in another state said that the types of software used to issue different types of licenses and collect fees are governed by complex rules and procedures – all of which would be impacted by additional screening processes.
So, just as state governments and their motor vehicle departments try to comply with the just released REAL ID requirements, yet another expensive, complex and controversial process requirement has been placed on the table. At least they know what they may be in for.
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This is a response to Noell Reed and david's comments should they return to this article and see my comment: You both need to pay attention to the Kyle "Dusty" Foggo trial that is moving to Alexandria, VA from San Diego. Foggo is the former CIA Executive Director. The target of the strawmen, shell companies and private security installer coaxed to work with Foggo and Brent Wilkes in their indictments was what NIST calls "smart wallet." Brent Wilkes held-up the moving of this trial for 4 months apart of his original conspiracy which involved many more parties/companies, and Chertoff, whose former employer (Latham & Watkins) is apart of the conspiracy squeezed in the final rules between the trials, hoping the inventor of the smart wallet and forerunner on Real ID since 2002 based on merit, finally would sellout to 911 conspirators (only at liberty to say it is another nation's govt and that Foggo was one of many who abused his post to mislead the public). 911 conspirators majority-own (publicly traded cos) every DHS prime contract awardee, so have been deriving financial incentive to keep orchestrating attacks on the US and its allies.
It didn't work...we didn't panic and sell, and you'll all enjoy the portion of our platform involving air transportation. Each application loaded into our wallets has its own digital ID which is for privacy and security purposes (inherent to the platform...it removes financial incentive to hack servers warehousing our personal information). It is the digital wallet that secures anything you want to load into it--each with its own new identifier, including all types of tickets.
Dawn Dippell | Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | 10:10 AMThe Achilles heel of Real ID is the airline industry. If everyone were to buy a ticket, then cancel it, the mesage would be clear in financial circles.
In addition, not flying at all in May, would get the message across loud and clear.
We could all simply refuse to enter federal buildings as well. That would be noted for sure.
Another idea is to stop all tourist travel to Washington, DC.
Mark any mail from the Feds "Addressee unknown, return to sender" would cause consternation in official circles as well.
Complete non-cooperation with any federal program is something that they are not equipped to deal with...
Its way past time to have all the systems integrated. We need to be able to indetify and keep track of the scum, its bad enough they are let go to prey on society
dan ketter | Monday, February 04, 2008 | 08:07 PMJust an example of REAL ID expansionism. There are NO limits on REAL ID, by design, I believe. CHERTOFF has recently said that he envisions "other uses" for REAL ID.
david | Monday, February 04, 2008 | 01:17 PMABOUT THIS BLOG
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