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Check your CCW and driver’s license. If they are expiring within the next six months, call to confirm and get to a fee office ASAP to renew while you can without intrusive government scans.
If you have had your source documents scanned without your express permission, please call us at 314-971-2477 to make plans to come to Jefferson City to talk to lawmakers about the experience.
File a civil lawsuit! If you had documents scanned, or refuse to allow it to be done, talk to a local attorney about filing a civil suit. Nothing gets more attention and response than a court summons!
Keep calling your lawmakers and demanding answers and a reversal of the DOR’s offensive attempt to circumvent the law and the trust of the citizens of the Great State of Missouri.
Communicate with Lawmakers in Jefferson City that they keep looking for solutions while striving to hold DOR officials accountable. The vast majority of lawmakers are very upset with this!
Write “letters to the editor”, call radio show hosts, speak up in public forums & in the public square. Do not allow these invasions of privacy to go unchallenged – your grandchildren need you!
Art VII Sect 4 of the MO Constitution states "Except as provided in this constitution, all officers not subject to impeachment shall be subject to removal from office in the manner and for the causes provided by law."
HB 886. This bill provides a process allowing the General Assembly to fire Department heads and Deputy Department Heads who lie to the Legislature (as DOR did to the Senate), violate the law (as DOR did by purchasing and using facial recognition cameras and sending that personal information to the federal government) or engaging in other offenses an elected official may be impeached for.
We are keeping tabs on this. Below is a link to a House Bill that I have co-sponsored that would keep DOR from copying/scanning/retaining any source documents.
www.house.mo.gov...
I will continue to look into this. I do believe it is a problem. The increased overreach of the Federal Government is appalling.
Joe Don McGaugh
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES RICHARDSON (Sponsor), JONES (110), SMITH (120),
JONES (50), RIDDLE, KORMAN, COX, GUERNSEY, CURTMAN, BARNES, HINSON, ROSS,
LICHTENEGGER, CONWAY (104), MCCAHERTY, FITZWATER, WILSON, HOUGH, FOWLER,
FRAKER, HANSEN, WALKER, WHITE, ROWDEN, REHDER, FREDERICK, ALLEN, FLANIGAN,
SHUMAKE, PHILLIPS, SOLON, BROWN, SOMMER, MCGAUGH, REMOLE, HAEFNER,
HAMPTON AND KELLEY (127) (Co-sponsors).
www.house.mo.gov...
Same source as above...
Section A. Chapter 302, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be
known as section 302.065, to read as follows:
302.065.
1. Notwithstanding section 32.090 or any other provision of law to the
2 contrary, the department of revenue shall not retain copies, in any format, of source
3 documents presented by individuals applying for or holding driver's licenses or nondriver's
4 licenses. The department of revenue shall not use technology to capture digital images of
5 source documents so that the images are capable of being retained in electronic storage in
6 a transferable format.
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri State Highway Patrol has twice turned over the entire list of Missouri concealed weapon permit holders to federal authorities, most recently in January, Sen. Kurt Schaefer said Wednesday.
We know that somebody out there, probably in the federal government, wants the list of all the concealed carry holders in Missouri. We know that now.
“We know one other piece of information – we know the department is actively and purposefully concealing that information from us,” Schaaf said.
I am afraid - once we have gotten this far into compliance we are not going to be able go backward.
Originally posted by sad_eyed_lady
Highway patrol gave feds Missouri weapon permits data
www.columbiatribune.com...
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri State Highway Patrol has twice turned over the entire list of Missouri concealed weapon permit holders to federal authorities, most recently in January, Sen. Kurt Schaefer said Wednesday.
Heads should roll at DOR, but only the Governor can fire department heads (at least until HB 886 passes) and he is not touching this one.
So what can be deduced from this latest information?
We know that somebody out there, probably in the federal government, wants the list of all the concealed carry holders in Missouri. We know that now.
“We know one other piece of information – we know the department is actively and purposefully concealing that information from us,” Schaaf said.
Originally posted by sad_eyed_lady
Heads should roll at DOR, but only the Governor can fire department heads (at least until HB 886 passes) and he is not touching this one.
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Missouri State Highway Patrol Col. Ron Replogle was questioned for nearly an hour this morning by the Senate Appropriations Committee after he revealed to Chairman Kurt Schaefer yesterday that his agency had turned over the data.
In November 2011 and again in January, Replogle said, an agent of the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General received discs with the data. Each time, the agent was unable to read the encryption format and destroyed the discs, Replogle said.
“They said no names were retrieved,” Replogle told the committee this morning. “They do not have those names. They did not disseminate that information, and all that information has been destroyed. We have asked for that documentation of what has happened.”
The data was turned over because the Office of Inspector General is a law enforcement agency, Replogle said. It was done by a mid-level supervisor at the patrol. Replogle said he was not informed of the transfer until four weeks ago.
The intention was to cross-check the names on the concealed carry list with the agency’s list of those with disabilities attributed to mental illness to find possible evidence of fraud in the system.
Additionally, legislation is advancing that will make it clear in no uncertain terms that state departments must protect our personal data.
House Government Oversight and Accountability Committee focused again this afternoon on the DOR scandal. This time they are driving questions at various officials but plan to deal with HB 886 giving the General Assembly greater authority to fire certain beauracrats, and HB 840 forcing DOR to pay and financial damages to fee offices. (Other bills address damages to citizens also.)
Senate Amendment #1 to SB 252 has been adopted by the full Senate. Thus the bill now completely removes CCW endorsements from DOR and leaves the entire CCW process in the hands of local sheriffs. (This includes extending CCW endorsements to 5 years.)
The House on Thursday passed legislation intended to stop the Revenue Department from making electronic copies of concealed-gun permit documents. The bill also would require the department to destroy those documents that already have been collected.
They will look for when the bombs might have been left behind and then examine the faces of everyone who was in the area around that time. They will try to put names to those faces, using facial recognition matching software, drawing on drivers license, passport, and visa databases.
That plan would ax 37 full-time positions in the DOR’s license division in a $3.5 million cut. The trims also include a reduction of $7 million in DOR administrative costs, $9 million from the computer technology division of the Office of Administration and another $20 million from the Department of Public Safety administration.
The Southeast Missourian reported the subpoena was issued to Nixon in a suit brought by Eric Griffin, a Stoddard County man who was forced to submit to the scanning procedures to get his concealed carry endorsement.
"JCAR Chairman Schmitt reading letter from Janet Napolitano thanking Gov Nixon for his efforts to implement RealID in Missouri"
"DOR the Gov should have know about the process changes"