{"id":114817,"date":"2016-01-07T14:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=114817"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:31:24","slug":"clarification-to-the-article-what-you-need-to-know-about-nms-newest-fight-over-drivers-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/01\/clarification-to-the-article-what-you-need-to-know-about-nms-newest-fight-over-drivers-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarification to the article, ‘What you need to know about NM\u2019s newest fight over driver\u2019s licenses’"},"content":{"rendered":"

NMPolitics.net has\u00a0a\u00a0policy<\/a> requiring that we correct inaccuracies. In accordance with that policy, here\u2019s a detailed correction\u00a0to the article,\u00a0\u201cWhat you need to know about NM’s newest fight over driver’s licenses<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article originally reported that if state political leaders didn\u2019t agree to a compromise by Sunday, New Mexico licenses would not get people into nuclear power plants, military bases, and other federal facilities that require identification. That\u2019s apparently not accurate. What\u2019s accurate is that New Mexico licenses may or may not get people into federal facilities if the state\u2019s licenses are deemed not complaint with REAL ID.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a lot of confusion on this point. News organizations have reported conflicting information. As of Thursday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security still states on its website<\/a> that \u201cResidents from a noncompliant state without extensions will need to show an alternative form of ID when visiting federal facilities, nuclear power plants and military bases.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not accurate \u2014 and, in a state with several military installations and national laboratories, this point matters. Some facilities \u2014 including military bases \u2014 are setting their own rules. At least some plan to continue accepting New Mexico driver\u2019s licenses as valid forms of ID regardless of REAL ID compliance, at least for now.<\/p>\n

For example, White Sands Missile Range plans continue to accept New Mexico licenses to get visitors on base, even if they\u2019re deemed out of compliance with the REAL ID Act, because the facility also conducts background checks on all visitors, Erin Dorrance, WSMR spokeswoman, said Thursday. Dorrance cautioned that the decision to accept New Mexico licenses, which comes from the U.S. Army, could change.<\/p>\n

There doesn\u2019t appear to be a comprehensive list indicating which federal facilities plan to continue to accept New Mexico licenses if they\u2019re not REAL ID compliant and which plan to require alternate forms of ID, such as passports.<\/p>\n

This article has been updated to include accurate information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article originally reported that if state political leaders didn\u2019t agree to a compromise by Sunday, New Mexico licenses would not get people into nuclear power plants, military bases, and other federal facilities that require identification. That\u2019s apparently not accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corrections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}