Quote from: From an article in the Sacramento BeeFederal officials maintain that standardizing driver's licenses issued by states will improve national security. Opponents warn the proposed regulations would infringe on privacy rights and be exorbitantly costly.

On Tuesday, both sides will have their say when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security holds the nation's only public hearing on the 2005 Real ID Act on the campus of the University of California, Davis.

State officials from throughout the nation are scheduled to attend the four-hour town hall meeting, which begins at 10 a.m in Freeborn Hall.

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A sidebar in the Bee says this is a public hearing.

I will be looking at my schedule to see if I can take the day off and attend.  I strongly encourage anyone else who can attend to do so.

Karen

P.S., The Sacramento Bee sometimes requires registration to view its articles, but if you go through Google News, you can bypass the registration.

P.P.S., Google news only shows the SacBee article, so this is not yet widely known.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=UCD+ID&btnG=Search+News

Here is the only other article on this I could find, dated 26 April:

http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/105194