[Blindtlk] Picture ID's.

[Ron Poire]

In Minnesota, we must go to any place which handles drivers' licenses and 
pay $18 in cash or check for a picture ID. For us, we receive a notice in 
the mail that the ID is about to expire. You have 30 days to renew, by going 
to the DVS, getting your picture taken, the old ID is clipped on one corner. 
The new ID arrives in the mail, about a week or so later.

Ron


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reese" <atlanticstar1 at gmail.com>
To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Picture ID's.


> Mary:
>
> I have obtain State If's for PA, CA, FL and GA.  In all of these States 
> the
> ID'S are issued by the States transportation department. Same department
> that issues the States driver license's. DMV.  I am pretty sure this is 
> the
> process for all the States.  Regardless of where the DMV location is, its
> your responsibility to get there they say.
>
> I Seriously doubt if you have an ADA claim regarding how non drivers are
> somehow being discriminated because there's no public transportation to 
> get
> them there.
>
> My closest Social Security office is located in a county in which there's 
> no
> transportation to get there.  So each time I receive a letter from them
> requesting me to come in for an interview, I have to go to another office
> that doesn't handle my case.  And the first thing they say is, why didn't
> you go to your local office?  I tell them why and they have to deal with 
> my
> request.
>
> Reese
>
> ----- Original Message ----- Dear Readers;
>
>            I'd be interesting in hearing how your states dispense picture
> If's that aren't drivers' licenses.  Are the dispensed at transportation 
> or
> MV departments only?  Or, can you get a first-time picture ID at an agency
> like a DVR or a CIL?  The reason I'm asking is that in Des Moines, the 
> only
> location from where a person can obtain a first-time picture ID is from an
> Iowa Department of Transportation office that will not have public transit
> access when out bus system implements its future redesign.  That means
> you'll have to drive to the place to get a DL or the ID that they call a
> "non-operator's ID".  Does this make any sense?  I don't think so.  So, 
> I'd
> like to know a little about how other states distribute picture ID's to
> people who can't or don't drive.  I'd like to know if there are locations
> for this on transit routes.
>
>            I fail to understand why we can't have some kind of satellite
> office at IDB or DVR or some other place that's on a bus line and I'm
> considering taking this to our Chapter as an advocacy project.
>
>
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