[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Re: National Drivers License and ALA Committee on Legislation

[Alfred Kagan]

FYI

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Tiffani Conner <Tiffani.Conner at uconn.edu>
> Date: February 9, 2005 7:52:23 PM CST
> To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l at ala.org>
> Subject: [SRRTAC-L:15834] FW: [NMRT-L:4587] Re: National Drivers 
> License and ALA Committee  on Legislation
> Reply-To: srrtac-l at ala.org
>
> Additional issues with Real ID Act (H.R. 418)
>
> This bill is even more problematic than that!
>
> "A bill to establish national identification card standards
> and restrict asylum claims also contains a controversial
> provision to empower the Secretary of Homeland Security to
> waive any and all laws in the course of securing the borders
> from illegal immigration. The provision also includes an
> exemption from judicial review that not only shields the
> waiver decisions from court scrutiny but also strips courts
> of any power to order remedies for anyone harmed by the
> consequences of such decisions."
> http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleprint/2655/-1/316/
>
> Cheers,
> Tiffani
>
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:38:24 -0500, Tiffani Conner
> <Tiffani.Conner at uconn.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> NMRTers,
>>
>> As I was driving to work this morning NPR broadcast a
> story about the
>> "Real ID Act"
>>
> (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=449195
> 0)
>> a.k.a. National Driver's License. Well this lends itself
> well to
>> distributing information about yet another issue discussed
> at
>> Mid-Winter in the Committee on Legislation meetings and
> Legislative Assembly.
>>
>> Discussions went the direction of "the Real ID Act amounts
> to a
>> defacto National ID system" that has people's names in a
> database--
>> privacy issues are the concern. Some dissenters opposed
> ALA taking a
>> stand on issues that do not directly effect libraries.
> This dissention
>> position was countered with the statement that ALA has
> taken similar
>> stands on issues that become defacto invasions of privacy
> but on the
>> front do not seem to be directly related to libraries.
> But, driver's
>> licenses are accepted as forms of ID at libraries, and if
> this
>> practice were in combination with a national database of
> standardized
>> driver's licenses, then tracking of library borrowing
> habits could be in our future.
>>
>> House Judiciary Chairman Introduces "Real ID" Act
>>
> http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/january/0127_sensenbrenner_b
> ill.shtml
>>
>> H.R. 418
>> http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.418:
>>
>> ALA's statement of opposition to the 'Real ID' Act
>>
> http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/civilliberties/priva
> cy/privacy
>> related.htm
>>
>> Cheers,
>> tiffani
>
>
Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliogrpaher and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at uiuc.edu
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