The Missouri Department of Revenue (DOR) delivered 16 boxes of unsorted, uncategorized and unsummarized data in response to a Senate Subpoena. They have told Senate leaders that there are 34 more boxes that are available. Rather than just produce documents that clearly answer questions, the Nixon administration has chosen to play games about what is or isn’t being done with our personal data that is being collected.
Senator Kurt Schaefer (R-19) has been leading this effort as chairman of the Senate Appropriations committee. We spoke with Senator Schaefer the day the boxes were delivered.
Governor Nixon has been disengaged on the issue. His response so far is that he hasn’t “…gotten into the details on this other than to say that no, we’re not moving forward on trying to implement Real I.D.” He is apparently unaware of the full testimony that has been provided by his DOR on the issue. If he were, he would be more inclined to get into the details if he is not working to cover them up.
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Okay, so the press conference Governor Nixon had on Thursday, 4/4, had him saying that the state is not collecting “a bunch of unuseful data….” Sadly, it looks as though we need to parse every syllable from the governor here. The question is, is the state collecting ANY data?
This is just another example of the government consolidating power, by concentrating information and/or wealth at the top. Enough!
We have enough trouble protecting our identity. Now our Governor is putting it out there, what is his problem. He doesn’t care about us. He would feel different if he was in our place.Let him run for office again, see if we vote for him. Ha!
Everyone involved in this, from the Gov. Highway Patrol, and anyone else should be prosacuted and put in jail. Are any of them above the law that Gov. Nixon signed? This is not only against the State Law, it is also idenity theft.We try so hard to combat idenity theft, and our own State Government does it to us.
You seriously want someone who has voluntarily given his finger prints to the FBI to get a CCW permit to get upset that the government has his info?? Here is a clue if you do not want the federal government to have your info then do not get the CCW!
The issue is not the CCW it is the Real ID act.
Missouri had better figure out how to comply or get the Federal Real ID act enacted by the GOP and signed by President Bush in 2005 changed.
Without compliance with the Real ID act a Missouri drivers license cannot be used to fly on a plane, ride a train or board a ship. Everyone wanting to fly will be to required to obtain a passport. Which means you get to supply all the source documents to the federal government yourself.
Seems that the current state government is trying to comply with the Real ID and the state law. They do not share with the feds but do collect required documents under the Real ID at.
Don’t want CCW info caught up in the Real ID mess than do not put CCW on drivers licenses. Missouri chooses to combine the two why? No need to.
This is a made up issue/problem but the issue we should be working on is how to comply with the Real ID act.
Your post is inaccurate in many ways.
First, the federal government can accept MO Driver’s license that are not REAL ID compliant. They have delayed the “requirement” since it was passed. It’s artificial and at least 14 other states are also choosing not to comply.
TSA has the option of letting people go or searching them. No passport required. Passports only require your birth certificate.
Unless you are on a ship at which time a passport is required to re-enter the country anyway. A driver’s license CANNOT be used.
Second, fingerprints and other info in the CCW system is restricted to law enforcement only. That’s why the feds had to ask for the database of CCW owners – they could not use the law enforcement system to do what they wanted to do.
Third, of the 173,000 CCW holders in MO just over 4,000 of them put it on their driver’s license. the other 169,000 or so do not.
Fourth, by their own admission state government is sharing data with the feds.
Fifth, state government is not complying with state law and REAL ID. It can’t be done.