Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Help Outlaw Real ID in Pennsylvania

From: AFTF Pennsylvania [aftfpennsylvania@gmail.com]
Subject: Real ID and Privacy Update 11 May 09
To: Jim Compton [comptonjr@comcast.net]
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 10:03 AM


Good day, Volunteers,

Last week we had some positive news. First the Senate Communications and Technology Committee will have a hearing this Wednesday June 13th on Senate bill 621, (Real ID), and Senate bill 623, (biometrics).
Senator Folmer is the chair of the committee and scheduled the meeting at 9:00 a.m., in Room 8E-B East Wing.

If you can make it to the meeting please do. We’d like to see the room overflowing. Plan to arrive early since one never knows about traffic. I park on City Island and take the 10 – 15 min walk to the Capitol. Cost is $5 for full day parking on the island.

Second, Representative Rohrer has introduced his bill to prohibit Real ID in PA. It’s House Bill 1443. So far, we have 55 co-sponsors on the bill. They are:

ROHRER, BENNINGHOFF, BRENNAN, BROOKS, CALTAGIRONE, CLYMER, CREIGHTON, CUTLER, DENLINGER, DeWEESE, ELLIS, FABRIZIO, FLECK, FREEMAN, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARKINS, HARRIS, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, KELLER, KORTZ, MARSHALL, MELIO, METZGAR, MILLARD, MILNE, MUNDY, MUSTIO, PALLONE, PETRARCA, RAPP, REICHLEY, ROAE, ROCK, SAYLOR, SMITH, STEVENSON, SWANGER, TALLMAN, TRUE, WAGNER, WHEATLEY and GABLER.

House Bill 1443 and Senate Bill 621 are essentially the same. House Bill 1443 as been assigned to the Representative Thomas’s Intergovernmental Affairs Committee again. We’ll need to keep pressure on Representative Thomas to have a committee hearing on the bill.

Here are the members of the House Intergovernmental Affairs Committee:

W. Curtis Thomas, Chairman; 
Matthew D. Bradford, Secretary; 
H. Scott Conklin, Subcommittee Chairman on Information Technology; 
Bryan R. Lentz, Subcommittee Chairman on Federal State Relations; Chris Ross, Chairman; Tim 
Krieger, Secretary; 
 Keith Gillespie, Subcommittee Chairman on Information Technology; Duane 
Milne, Subcommittee Chairman on Federal State Relations; Mark B. Cohen; Peter J. Daley; Daniel J. Deasy;
 David R. Kessler; 
Thaddeus 
 Kirkland; Kathy 

Manderino; Tony J. Payton, Jr.; 
James R. Roebuck, Jr.; John P. 
Sabatina, Jr.; 
Rosita C. Youngblood; Jim Christiana; 
Frank A. Farry; Matt
 
Gabler; Seth M. Grove; 
Carl Walker Metzgar; 
Donna Oberlander; Will 
Tallman.

Calls, emails, and letters will help increase the number of Senators and House members who co-sponsor these bills. I’ve got work to do too. My Representative is a “freshman” and I’ll do my best to bring her up to date. She did co-sponsor House Resolution 95 on the Tenth Amendment, but has not yet co-sponsored HB 1443.

Keep up the great work and keep your chin high.

Yours in Liberty,

Jim

 

Real ID of 2005

More Info on Real ID


In the Real ID Act of 2005, there are minimum standards states must meet, however, Secretary of Homeland Security may change those standards as provided in Section 205

Minimum Standards are addressed in Section 202 (b):

(b) Minimum Document Requirements. --To meet the requirements of this section, a State shall include, at a minimum, the following information and features on each driver's license and identification card issued to a person by the State:

(1) The person's full legal name.

(2) The person's date of birth.

(3) The person's gender.

(4) The person's driver's license or identification card number.

(5) A digital photograph of the person.

(6) The person's address of principle residence.

(7) The person's signature.

(8) Physical security features designed to prevent tampering, counterfeiting, or duplication of the document for fraudulent purposes.

(9) A common machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements.


Under Sec. 205 states:


AUTHORITY.

(a) Participation of Secretary of Transportation and States. —All authority to issue regulations, set standards, and issue grants under this title shall be carried out by the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation and the States.


L-1’s cover sheet on Real ID includes race and political party. That’s more than the “minimum standard,” which the Secretary can change.


On the second page, is Pennsylvania the subject of their Case Study?

Did Pennsylvania have a problem with its driver licensing centers?

Has PennDOT adopted Viisage’s face recognition matching technology?


Let’s stop Real ID and PennDOT’s use of FaceEXPLORER software this year!