Submit Comments to DHS Opposing REAL ID -- Deadline May 8!The rebellion against the REAL ID Act keeps growing -- last week, Montana became the fifth state to push back against the federal government's national ID mandate. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is currently taking comment on its draft regulations for implementing REAL ID, and it's critical that you make clear that this privacy-invasive law is fundamentally flawed and must be repealed entirely. The May 8 comment deadline is fast approaching -- take action and submit comments using the form below.
The REAL ID Act makes states standardize drivers licenses and create a vast national database linking all of the ID records together. Once in place, uses of the IDs and database will inevitably expand to facilitate a wide range of tracking and surveillance activities. Worse still, states and individual taxpayers will bear the estimated 23 billion dollar burden of implementing the law, and that figure is probably low given that the necessary verification systems don't exist yet.
Thankfully, the tide is turning against REAL ID in a big way -- along with opposition building in the states, Congress is considering a repeal.
By voicing your concerns to DHS now, you can help make a difference and stop this privacy-invasive, burdensome policy. You can use our form letter below, but it's far better if you can write something in your own words -- you can get additional talking points by visiting our
REAL ID page, ACLU's
realnightmare.org page, and the links below.
Along with sending a letter below, you can submit comments during a DHS town hall meeting on Tuesday, May 1 from 10 AM to 2 PM. DHS says the event will be webcast at
http://www.realidtownhall.com and that it will take email comments. More information about the meeting can be found
here.
