ADC Press Release:
\nOver 40 Groups Announce Anti-National REAL ID Public Comment Campaign<\/p>\n
Washington, DC | May 1, 2007 | www.adc.org<\/span><\/u><\/a> | Today, forty-two organizations representing trans-partisan, nonpartisan, privacy, consumer, civil liberty, civil rights, and immigrant organizations have joined to launch a national campaign to solicit public comments to stop the nation’s first national ID system-REAL ID. The deadline to submit comments is 5pm on Tuesday, May 8.<\/p>\n The groups joining in the anti-REAL ID campaign are concerned about the increased threat of counterfeiting and identity theft, lack of security to protect against unauthorized access to the document’s machine readable content, increased cost to taxpayers, diverting of state funds intended for homeland security, increased costs for obtaining a license or state issued ID card, the possibility of profiling on the basis of national origin and\/or race, and because the REAL ID would create a false belief that it is secure and unforgeable.<\/p>\n This effort builds on the momentum of broad opposition to the REAL ID in the nation. Montana has become the fifth state, following Maine, Idaho, Arkansas, and Washington, to prohibit cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in implementing the REAL ID national identification system.<\/p>\n Under the Act, states and the federal government would share access to a vast national database that could include images of birth certificates; marriage licenses; divorce papers; court ordered separations; medical records; and detailed information on the name, date of birth, race, religion, ethnicity, gender, address, telephone, e-mail address, social security numbers for more than 240 million with no requirements or controls on how this database might be used. Many may not have the documents required to obtain a REAL ID, or they may face added requirements based on arbitrary decisions made by DMV employees.<\/p>\n The draft regulations to implement the REAL ID Act are open for comment until 5 p.m. EST on May 8, 2007. To take action, submit comments against the fundamentally flawed national identification scheme, under Docket No. 2006-0030.<\/p>\n The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), which is the largest non-sectarian and non-partisan Arab-American grassroots civil rights organization, is strongly opposed to REAL ID. Carol Khawly, ADC Director of Legal Advocacy, said “As a community, we fear that the REAL ID card will be used by different government agencies as well as private parties to profile individuals who look foreign or who have a foreign name. The Act negatively impacts the rights of the Arab-American community as well as other immigrant communities, seriously affects individual privacy rights, and promotes unjust discrimination and profiling on the basis of ethnicity and religion.”<\/p>\n Online: Through the public submission portal at: http:\/\/www.regulations.gov<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n Or use one of the more user-friendly sites found at the following web addresses:<\/p>\n EFF: https:\/\/secure.eff.org\/site\/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr007=jursz5zko3.app13b&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=287<\/p>\n Privacy Activism http:\/\/stoprealid.privacyactivism.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Instructions_for_filing_comments<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n To Fax Comments to the Department of Homeland Security: Electronic Frontier Foundation: http:\/\/action.eff.org\/site\/Advocacy?id=287<\/span><\/u><\/a>, Privacy Coalition http:\/\/www.privacycoalition.org\/stoprealid\/sampletext.html<\/span><\/u><\/a> or send a letter to the agency at Fax 1-866-466-5370.<\/p>\n Postal mail: ALL COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY UNTIL 5:00 PM EST ON MAY 8, 2007.<\/p>\n FYI: OTHER ANTI-REAL ID ONLINE RESOURCES:<\/p>\n ACLU http:\/\/www.realnightmare.org\/<\/span><\/u><\/a> LIST OF ALL OF THE GROUPS SUPPORTING THIS CAMPAIGN<\/p>\n 1. 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\nDepartment of Homeland Security
\nAttn: NAC 1-12037
\nWashington, DC 20528<\/p>\n
\nEFF http:\/\/www.eff.org\/Privacy\/ID\/RealID\/<\/span><\/u><\/a>
\nEPIC http:\/\/www.epic.org\/privacy\/id_cards<\/span><\/u><\/a>
\nLiberty Coalition http:\/\/www.libertycoalition.net\/issues\/national-id-0<\/span><\/u><\/a>
\nPrivacy Activism http:\/\/stoprealidnow.blogspot.com\/<\/span><\/u><\/a>
\nPrivacy Rights Clearinghouse http:\/\/www.privacyrights.org\/ar\/real_id_act.htm<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n
\n2. American Library Association
\n3. American Policy Center
\n4. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
\n5. Association of American Physicians & Surgeons
\n6. Bill of Rights Defense Committee
\n7. Center for Digital Democracy
\n8. Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights
\n9. Citizen Outreach Project.
\n10. Citizens Against Government Waste
\n11. Common Cause
\n12. Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility
\n13. Consumer Action
\n14. DownsizeDC.org
\n15. Electronic Frontier Foundation
\n16. Electronic Privacy Information Center
\n17. Fairfax County Privacy Council
\n18. Give Me Back My Rights Coalition
\n19. Government Accountability Project
\n20. Gun Owners of America
\n21. Immigrant Workers Union
\n22. Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
\n23. Liberty Coalition
\n24. National Center for Transgender Equality
\n25. National Council of Jewish Women
\n26. National Council of La Raza
\n27. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
\n28. National Immigration Law Center
\n29. OpenCarry.org
\n30. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
\n31. Patient Privacy Rights Foundation
\n32. Privacy Activism
\n33. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
\n34. Privacy Times
\n35. Republican Liberty Caucus
\n36. Rutherford Institute, The
\n37. The Arc of the United States United Cerebral Palsy
\n38. The Multiracial Activist
\n39. US Bill of Rights Foundation
\n40. Virginia Citizens Defense League
\n41. Virginia Gun Owners Coalition
\n42. World Privacy Forum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"