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taming the driver's date of birth,
license plate number and license
expiration date
The cards offer many advan¬
tages to the DMV, the police and,
in the future, the consumers who
will use them for identification at
retail and grocery stores.
For the DMV, the system has
providedbetterquality images and
saved tune.
"Just doing away with the ink
for fingerprinting has saved sec¬
onds," said Anthony Walker, man¬
ager of systems development at
theDMV.
More importantly. Walker said,
now that the' images are available
on-line, agents at the DMV's main
facility in Sacramento can retrieve
and send them to law enforcement
officials and government agencies
for identification purposes much
more conveniently.
According to the DMV's an¬
nual report, under the old system,
the DMV staff processed some
20,000 to 30,000 requests every
month.
First, employees had to go
through the labor-intensive busi¬
ness of physically locating a mi¬
crofilm record. This was an added
problem with the occasional poor
quality of the resulting 2-square-
inch black and white photographs.
By comparison, the new image
system produces a crisp color im¬
age that can be viewed on screen
or output to a color laser printer in
less than one minute.
To retrieve the image, DMV
agents log on to the image data¬
base maintained at the card-pro¬
cessing center of NBS Imaging
Systems. i
NBS, based in Fort Wayne, Ind.,
has produced California licenses
and ID cards since 1961 and was
1 nathed prime contractor for the
$29 million, five-year California
DMV project, according to the ini¬
tial project proposal.
NBS subcontractors for the
project include IBM, which pro¬
vided two IBM 9370 mai nfrarr.es
as host computers for the image
database, and PI Technology in
Simi Valley, Calif, which pro¬
vided the image database applica¬
tion-is well as the high capacity,
14-inch optical disc libraries from
Eastman Kodak Company's Com¬
mercial Imaging Group.
A new card, at an average price
of 74 cents to the state, takes about
16 to 17 days to deliver to a citizen,
which is about the same as under
the old sys#n.
Although the DMV office is
directly connected to the NBS im¬
age database today, Walker said
the ultimate goal Is to give autho-
' rind law. enforcement agencies
remote access to the system over
MfcxniaUwE^fbrcement Tele¬
communications^ System
. (CLETS).
"A major problem is the size of
the image record, which is about
25K (bytes)," Walker said, adding
thatCLEfS' current speed of 9.6K
bit/sec. image transmission is too
alow and not suitable.
Walker said, however, that there
is talk of increasing the CLETS
backbone to 56K bit/sec. or even
Tl speeds, which would allow im¬
age file transfers.
In the future, the. new license
application could benefit
California's commercial establish¬
ments, such as retail stores and
banks, which could adapt software
•of existing card readers to grab the
driver, information contained on
the license's magnetic stripe.
"I've had numerous conversa¬
tions with somexhig chains in the
state' and I know some of them
have developed software for this
application,'* Walker said.
And what about being pulled
over for speeding?
In Ventura County, the Califor¬
nia Highway Patrol is currently
piloting a handheld device con¬
taining a card reader that can scan
the license and pick up 60 percent
of the needed information for a
ticket
The speeder receives a printout
and the handheld terminal later
downloads the citation directly into
the traffic ticket system, skipping
die need for paper work.
"The new system makes it easier
and more efficient to write a ticket,
which I am sure will please all
California motorists," Nelson said.
"I hope the new system will
make motorists think twice before
they commit a traffic violation."
*A decision whether or not to
take the system statewide is ex¬
pected within the next few months,
Walker said.
The DMV said it expects to
issue upwards of 40 million new
and renewal licenses and ID cards
over the next five years. .
With the new driver's license
system came a new system for
storing DMV records and making
them more available to other gov¬
ernment agencies.
Computerized records make it
a simple matter to use data for
purposes completely unrelated to
the reason they were collected.
As such, DMV records are im¬
portant in a national movement
that seeks to improve government
efficiency by looking for synergy
between government databases.
This movement can trace its
roots back to the executive branch
and then-President Reagan's origi¬
nal claims about "Welfare Queens"
who were bilking the system at the
expense of the taxpayer.
The major White House initia¬
tive was called "Operation Match."
The goal of the match was to pair
databases of people who owed
money to the government with
people who got money from the
government.
Match initially went after gov¬
ernment employees who had de¬
faulted on student loans and wel¬
fare recipients with large unearned
and unreported incomes.
According to the initiative,
states were encouraged to se£up
their own match programs..
Although they started with tax
and employment records, match¬
ing programs were custom made
for state DMVs—by far the most
accurate databases of state resi¬
dents.
No other state agency tracks
the movement of people more ac¬
curately than motor vehicles.
The matching of these databases
Tuesday, April 5,1994
has helped trac k dow n people who
owe money to the state govern¬
ment,
"Suspension of a driver's li¬
cense is more effective than a court
order to get money out of people,**
said Dianne Miller, head of the.
DMV auditing office. "And it's
fairly cost-effective. California is
trying to make drivers unable to
renew their driver'slicense if they
have unpaid parking tickets, un¬
paid moving violations or owe
money to any state agency .**
"Most law-abiding citizens take
it" very seriously,** said Mitch
Vasquez, an auditor at the DMV.
"We don't have debt Driving
has become a virtual necessity and
most people cannot do without it"
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