As California debated sharing data on drivers, Homeland Security subpoenaed 17 million records
The judge called the subpoena unlawful after DHS sought names, birth dates and Social Security numbers for 17 million commercial drivers.
- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security subpoenaed 17 million commercial driver records from the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators for "civil immigration enforcement," prompting 22 state attorneys general, including California, to sue last month.
- California legislators voted to share non-commercial driver data with AAMVA to comply with the 2005 REAL ID Act, fearing state IDs could become invalid at federal facilities; Governor Newsom signed the enabling bill in June.
- Federal agencies requested names, Social Security numbers, and license details for every driver in the commercial database going back five years, prompting Ed Hasbrouck of The Identity Project to warn that AAMVA's practices give California reason to distrust the group.
- On Aug. 21, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia temporarily blocked AAMVA from complying with the subpoena, calling the federal request "unlawful."
- California's planned data upload includes more than 1 million immigrants licensed under a 2013 state law, leading advocates to argue the federal demands confirm earlier warnings about sharing sensitive driver information with the national nonprofit.
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As California debated sharing data on drivers, Homeland Security subpoenaed 17 million records
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California lawmakers wrestled with a difficult question earlier this summer: Could the state safely share driver’s license data with a national group, as the federal government demanded, without exposing more than a million people to immigration and law enforcement agencies? Ultimately, amid fears […]
California’s driver data-sharing plan faces new scrutiny after federal subpoena
CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS wrestled with a difficult question earlier this summer: Could the state safely share driver’s license data with a national group, as the federal government demanded, without exposing more than a million people to immigration and law enforcement agencies? Ultimately, amid fears that state IDs wouldn’t be accepted at airports and federal buildings, they voted to let […]
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