Nevada Families Eagle Forum
186 Ryndon Unit 12, Elko, Nevada 89801, 775-397-6859, Sparks 775-356-0105
Janine Hansen director@nevadafamilies.org
May 9, 2010, In the Year of Our Lord
Our efforts to Stop the DMV REAL ID regulations have been successful. I believe that the Legislative Commission Subcommittee on Regulations will not hear DMV’s Regulations again. That means that DMV has been unable to implement their DMV regulations and has been forced to rescind the REAL ID drivers’ license requirements and is now only issuing standard drivers’ licenses.
REAL ID most likely will surface during the 2011 Legislative Session. In addition, DMV stated in the Elko Co. Commission meeting that 18 or so of 24 REAL ID benchmarks have already been implemented with the concurrence of the Legislature. The $4+ million in federal grants will not be going back because DMV continues to work on achieving these benchmarks. It appears that we have stopped the issuing of REAL ID drivers’ licenses but the stealth implementation of REAL ID by DMV continues.
Thanks to all of you for your diligence and sacrifice of time and effort. This is why we were as successful as we were, and it sets the foundation for the complete rescission of REAL ID at the Legislature. Janine
See the article below on Elko County Commission adopting a resolution opposing REAL ID.
http://www.elkodaily.com/articles/2010/05/09/news/local_news/doc4be582659482f609706574.txt
Commissioners say ‘no’ to Real ID
ELKO — Elko County Commissioners
unanimously opposed Real ID during their Thursday meeting.
Commissioner Warren Russell said he was concerned that when someone applies
for the ID, his or her personal information would be stored in a database
that could be accessed by other states or foreign countries.
“It’s an open door to all our personal information,” he said.
With Real ID, people obtaining the high-security driver’s licenses must show
a birth certificate, a Social Security card and proof of residency through
utility or other bills.
The deadline for states to implement the federal Real ID Act of 2005 is May
1, 2011.
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Residents
born after Dec. 1, 1964 would have until December 2014 to get a Real ID and
those born before Dec. 1, 1964 would have until December 2017.
Tom Jacobs, a public information officer for the Nevada Department of Motor
Vehicles, attended the meeting via phone.
He said about nine states are currently issuing Real ID cards.
The DMV currently accepts 14 different documents to prove identity, Jacobs
said, but only seven would be accepted under Real ID.
Jacobs said nothing in the Real ID Act calls for a national database of
identity information and he said Nevada Revised Statutes would prohibit such
a database.
Janine Hansen of Elko, who is running for the State Assembly District 33
seat, said she’s attended every hearing on Real ID statewide since 2005.
She said NRS 481.063 states that the DMV can release information for use “by
any governmental entity, including, but not limited to, any court or law
enforcement agency, in carrying out its functions, or any person acting on
behalf of a federal, state or local governmental agency in carrying out its
function.”
Hansen said she can’t understand why the DMV says identity information won’t
be accessible.
“It jeopardizes our individual liberties,” she said.
Russell said there are concerns from a number of organizations across the
political spectrum about Real ID.
Hansen said May 1, 2011 isn’t really the deadline to implement Real ID. She
said many states have refused to comply, which is why extensions have been
granted.
She said Real ID violates the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which
states that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people.”
Jacobs said when the Real ID Act was passed in 2005, the DMV was worried
that the regulations would be too expensive and time consuming to implement.
“When the final rule was
published, many of our fears didn’t come to pass,” he said.
Jacobs said the DMV thought in 2007 that it would cost an estimated $60
million to implement Real ID in Nevada.
He said the DMV doesn’t collect any more information with Real ID than they
would when issuing a standard ID card.
Jacobs said DMV workers would ask to see proof of identification, but
wouldn’t make any copies.
The DMV is required to archive identity documents, he said, and local law
enforcement has full access to them.
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