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Janine Hansen, State President director@nevadafamilies.org
Dec 16, 2009, In the Year of Our Lord
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Alert: REAL ID is BACK!
Background: Gov. Jim Gibbons plans to issue an emergency regulation enacting the federal Real ID Act even as the federal government contemplates delaying the controversial measure. During the 2007 & 2009 Sessions the Nevada Legislature refused to enact REAL ID. Recently, Assemblyman Conklin, the Chairman of the Legislative Committee to Review Regulations, said the primary reason his committee did not approve a proposed Real ID regulation last month is because members anticipated Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano would postpone Real ID because of state opposition. See article below from the Las Vegas Review Journal.
REAL ID is a federal unfunded mandate. It is very expensive. It violates our right to privacy. There is no guarantee of security for all of the personal/private information, such as birth certificates and social security cards, collected in the state data base, which will ultimately be shared with the federal government. REAL ID can be used to track gun ownership. See additional info from Gun Owners of America below. Those of us who are pro-gun, pro-life, anti-big government have been identified by Secretary Janet Napolitano as potential “terrorists”. Under these circumstances REAL ID would allow the federal government a convenient way to profile us. If the federal government was really concerned about stopping terrorists they would protect our borders. Twenty-four states have passed some kind of legislation opposing REAL ID including twelve states which have refused to participate in REAL ID.
MESSAGE: Reject any REAL ID Regulations. Protect our Privacy and our Liberties.
CONTACT: Legislative Committee to Review Regulations & Governor
Chairman
Marcus Conklin: wk
702-363-3885 FAX 702-363-3885
mconklin@asm.state.nv.us
marucs@conklin4nevada.com
Assemblyman John Carpenter: wk 775-738-9861 h 775-738-9861 FAX
775-738-4953
jcarpenter@asm.state.nv.us
Assemblyman Marilyn Kirkpatrick: h 702-655-0332 cell 702-767-1315
mkirkpatrick@asm.state.nv.us
Senator Maggie Carlton: wk 702-452-3619
mcarlton@sen.state.nv.us
Senator Steven Horsford: wk 702-985-7535
shorsford@sen.state.nv.us
Senator Randolph Townsend: wk 775-954-2020 h 775-825-5111 FAX
775-954-2023 cell 775-771-1555
rtownsend@sen.state.nv.us
Senator Maurice Washington: wk 775-331-3826 FAX 775-331-7647
mwashington@sen.state.nv.us
Senator Joyce Woodhouse: h 702-896-1453 FAX 702-407-9253
jwoodhouse@sen.state.nv.us
Alternate: Assemblyman James Settelmeyer: h 775-365-7739 cell
775-450-6114
jsettelmeyer@asm.state.nv.us
Gov. Gibbons: Carson City: 775-684-5670 FAX 775-684-5683, Vegas:
702-486-2500, FAX 702-486-2505
To send e-mail go to:
http://gov.state.nv.us/Contact_Us.htm
http://www.lvrj.com/news/gibbons-set-to-enact-real-id-act-in-2010-78949347.html
Dec.
10, 2009
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
Gibbons set to enact Real ID Act in 2010
Driver's license documentation expands
CARSON CITY -- Gov. Jim Gibbons plans to issue an emergency regulation enacting the federal Real ID Act even as the federal government contemplates delaying the controversial measure.
Starting in January, newcomers to Nevada seeking a driver's license and those obtaining their first driver's license would be compelled to show a birth certificate, a Social Security card and documents verifying their residency. Eventually all Nevadans would be required to show such ID to renew their licenses, a move that Gibbons and other supporters of the measure say would prevent terrorists and people in the country illegally from obtaining identification cards.
Even if Gibbons issues the order, though, it could all be for naught. State legislators who have strongly opposed Real ID, citing its $1.5 million price tag, are threatening to kill it after the end of a 120-day emergency regulation period.
"It has direct impact to the state of Nevada if we don't move forward on Real ID," the governor said Tuesday.
Under the federal law, residents in states that do not adopt Real ID could be prevented from boarding interstate airline flights unless they agree to more extensive screening to determine if they have weapons. They also could be prevented from entering federal courthouses.
Critics have branded the Real ID Act as an attempt to impose a national identification card on Americans, which would increase the threat of identity theft, enable the routine tracking of U.S. citizens and move the nation toward a surveillance society.
American Civil Liberties Union public advocate Rebecca Gasca questioned why Gibbons wants to follow Real ID when most governors look at it as an invasion of their citizens' privacy.
"Even the governor of New York did not do it," said Gasca, who wrote Gibbons earlier this week and requested he not issue the regulations. "The governor of Nevada is the only governor in the United States pushing for this. Why? It is a waste of Nevada resources."
Forty-six states have filed protests over the Real ID Act.
Daniel Burns, Gibbons' communications director, said Wednesday that "As of this moment, we are going forward. The law is the law."
But he added that Gibbons and the state Department of Motor Vehicles will factor in what U.S. Homeland Security Janet Napolitano does. She is expected to announce an indefinite postponement of the Dec. 31 deadline for states to comply.
The governor's emergency regulations remain in effect for 120 days. The Legislature then could decide to make the regulation permanent, or void it entirely.
Assemblyman Marcus Conklin, D-Las Vegas, chairman of the Legislative Committee to Review Regulations, said he has no doubt that legislators would reject any Real ID regulations if Napolitano postpones the deadline.
By the time such a decision is made, however, the state's Real ID program will probably already be up and running.
"If they back away from it, what is the need for regulations?" he asked Wednesday. "It would be a wise decision for the federal government to back off. This is not in the best interest of Nevadans."
Conklin said the primary reason his committee did not approve a proposed Real ID regulation last month is because members anticipated Napolitano would postpone Real ID because of state opposition.
The Nevada Legislature in 2007 overwhelmingly passed a resolution -- with only Sen. Bob Coffin, D-Las Vegas, voting no -- that called on Congress to repeal the Real ID Act.
Governors do not sign legislative resolutions, but as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2005, Gibbons voted for the act.
The emergency regulation that Gibbons will sign requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to follow 18 Real ID benchmarks.
The benchmarks include retaining driver's license applicants' facial images, verifying their Social Security card numbers and addresses, checking whether they are legal residents, and doing background checks on DMV workers who have access to drivers' information.
Tom Jacobs, a Nevada DMV spokesman, said his agency will retain all drivers' information in its own database, not as part of a national database, although it will share information with other states about problem drivers.
Contact Capital Bureau Chief Ed Vogel at evogel@reviewjournal.com or 775-687-3901.
Gun Owners of America Opposes REAL ID as an Anti-Gun Monstrosity
· On February 9, 2005 Gun Owners of America sent out the following alert to its members opposing REAL ID as an anti-gun monstrosity.
Gun Owners of America
E-Mail Alert, 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408,
http://www.gunowners.org
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
“REAL ID, H.R. 418, would give the federal government open-ended authority to determine who may and may not get a driver's license -- and under what circumstances.
“Since I need a driver's license to purchase a gun from a dealer, BATFE would finally have its long-coveted tool to impose gun control on targeted groups -- particularly under a liberal anti-gun administration. If you believe in the Second Amendment, please vote against this anti-gun monstrosity.” http://seclists.org/politech/2005/Feb/0016.html
· . Will REAL ID be used to create a national gun registry?
The Alaskan Legislature is one of 12 states which have refused to participate in REAL ID
"The Real ID Act just goes too far," said Alaska State Senator Wielechowski. "It turns a driver's license into a tracking card and tells the federal government nearly everything you do from buying a gun, entering a federal facility or just taking your family to a national park. If we fail to stop the Real ID Act now, our personal privacy will be gone forever." Many gun owners are also concerned it will be used to create a national gun registry. http://www.sitnews.us/0408news/041208/041208_realid.html
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