Alaska Says ‘No’ To REAL ID
Alaska struck the first legal blow in the fight against a national ID card by refusing to pass legislation to bring the state in line with REAL ID.
May
09
2006
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Mar
17
2022
Alaska may end its compliance with the REAL-ID Act
A bill introduced in the current session of the Alaska state legislature, HB 389, would end the issuance by the state of Alaska of driver’s licenses that comply with the Federal REAL-ID Act of 2005. In addition, HB 389 would give Alaska residents “the option of having the applicant’s driver’s license photograph captured with a […]
Mar
15
2022
How many people fly without REAL-ID?
[Slide from internal TSA presentation, Identity Verification Staffing Support Overview, March 2017, released in response to FOIA request by the Identity Project.] As of 2016, almost 2,000 people a day were allowed through TSA checkpoints at US airports either without showing any ID at all, or with other forms of ID that the TSA or […]
Apr
27
2021
DHS extends REAL-ID airport enforcement “deadline” again
The Department of Homeland Security has once again postponed its self-proclaimed “deadline” for enforcement of the REAL-ID Act at airports, this time from October 1, 2021, to May 3, 2023. The latest postponement proves, once again, that the dates of the DHS threats to begin “enforcing” the REAL-ID Act at airports are as changeable as […]
Apr
21
2021
DHS wants to put REAL-ID drivers licenses on smartphones
The Department of Homeland Security has published a Request For Information (RFI) from vendors and other stakeholders regarding standards for drivers licenses and other IDs stored on smartphones or other mobile devices to be considered compliant with the REAL-ID Act of 2005. Responses to the RFI are due by June 18, 2021. The amendments to […]
Jan
03
2021
REAL-ID Act amended, but DHS doesn’t get the exemptions it wanted
Amendments to the REAL-ID Act of 2005 were included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which was signed into law by President Trump on December 27, 2020. But somewhere in the sausage-making that saw the REAL-ID Modernization Act and numerous other unrelated measures inserted into the 2,124-page omnibus pandemic relief and appropriations bill, the […]
Nov
10
2020
What does REAL-ID Act “enforcement” really mean?
For the last fifteen years, as both Republican and Democratic administrations have come and gone, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been using the threat of “enforcement” of the REAL-ID Act of 2005 to extort state legislators, governors, and driver licensing agencies into complying with the REAL-ID Act of 2005 and uploading their […]
Sep
15
2020
DHS lies again about REAL-ID
As it’s been doing for years, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is still lying about the state of compliance by states with the Federal REAL-ID Act of 2005. The latest DHS whopper is this DHS press release issued September 10, 2010: The DHS claims that “All U.S. States [Are] Now Compliant” with the […]
Jul
28
2020
Senate bill would exempt REAL-ID from due process and oversight
Rather than responding to our comments on the latest proposal by the Department of Homeland Security to require ID for airline travel, the DHS has quietly gone to Congress to try to get the law changed so that it doesn’t have to answer us, and to preclude potential litigation to challenge an ID requirement or […]
Apr
20
2020
COVID-19, the REAL-ID Act, and ID to fly
A month ago — in what seems like it was long ago and in a galaxy far, far, away, before the COVID-19 pandemic reduced air travel in the US by more than 95% — the US Department of Homeland Security was stepping up its baseless threats to begin “enforcement” of the REAL-ID Act against airline […]