{"id":1485,"date":"2015-10-20T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2015-10-30T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T01:24:10","slug":"kentucky-granted-extension-status-under-federal-real-id-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2015\/10\/20\/kentucky-granted-extension-status-under-federal-real-id-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Granted Extension Status Under Federal REAL ID Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security has granted Kentucky a one-year extension for meeting requirements of the stringent new identification security law known as REAL ID, meaning a Kentucky driver\u2019s license is still sufficient for gaining access to the vast majority of federal installations.<\/p>\n

The extension runs through October 10, 2016, and is renewable. Without the extension, those with a Kentucky driver\u2019s license would have had to produce another form of identification, such as a birth certificate or U.S. passport, for access to federal properties.<\/p>\n

The REAL ID Act was passed by Congress in 2005 in response to the 9\/11 Commission, which recommended that the federal government \u201cset standards for the issuance of sources of identification, such as driver\u2019s licenses.\u201d<\/p>\n

The federal act sets minimum standards for production and issuance of state-issued driver\u2019s licenses and identification cards. It also prohibits federal agencies from accepting for official uses driver\u2019s licenses and IDs from \u201cnoncompliant\u201d states. By virtue of being granted an extension, Kentucky is not considered out of compliance at the present time.<\/p>\n

Complying with REAL ID is more complicated for Kentucky than for most other states, in part because driver\u2019s licenses are issued by circuit court clerks, not by a department of motor vehicles. Licenses are issued at 141 clerk offices and branches around Kentucky, all of which would have to meet a greatly enhanced security standard. A security assessment of circuit clerk offices is in process.<\/p>\n

The Kentucky driver\u2019s license itself is not the issue. Since 2012, Kentucky has issued a redesigned license and ID card that include state-of-the-art security features designed to protect against counterfeiting, illegal alteration and other tampering. Safeguards include fine-line printing, digital watermarking, a hologram and dual-side lamination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has granted Kentucky a one-year extension for meeting requirements of the stringent new identification security law known as REAL ID, meaning a Kentucky driver\u2019s license is still sufficient for gaining access to the vast majority of federal installations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-nX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 21:07:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}