State Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, said she is “livid’’ that Napolitano promised to have Arizona comply with the Real ID Act and promised to fight the plan despite its voluntary nature.
“The federal government’s going to get all this information,’’ Johnson said.
Laura Keehner, a Homeland Security spokeswoman, said there will not be a national database. Instead, she said, each state will keep its own records containing the additional information.
Keehner said she did not know if personal information such as an individual’s physical features, fingerprints or even retinal scans would be collected, encoded on the card or possibly put onto a computer chip built into the license.
Johnson said it was wrong of Napolitano to sign the agreement with those issues unresolved.
“Who is the governor to say what we are going to do here in Arizona?’’ she said. “She’s only one branch of our state government.’’
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I have to say that Laura Keehner--being true to bureaucratic principles-- is disingenuous by saying there will not be a national database.
This is a smokescreen.
All 50 states may indeed maintain "their own" databases...
...but if all 50 states are linked to each other and allow the federal government access to the network...
...the results are the same as having one federal database.
Who are these DHS people?
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