Day: September 25, 2007

Officials say PR campaign may boost Real ID popularity

WASHINGTON–As controversy rages over forthcoming federal Real ID requirements, state officials should be plotting public relations strategies to counteract the well-publicized rebellion, past and present state motor vehicle administrators advised their colleagues Monday. Civil liberties and privacy groups, as well as organizations like the National Governors Association, have attacked the 2005 law as insufficiently protective of privacy and too costly to implement. But that’s exactly the sort of message motor vehicle departments need to offset with their own materials trumpeting the plan’s perceived benefits, suggested Lucinda Babers, interim director of the District of Columbia DMV, and Betty

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Law Banning Horse Slaughter Upheld

CHICAGO (AP) — The nation’s last horse slaughtering plant could be forced to permanently close after a federal appeals court Friday upheld an Illinois law prohibiting the slaughter of horses for human consumption. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals cited measures banning bullfights and cockfights to help explain why it was upholding the law. “States have a legitimate interest in prolonging the lives of animals that their population happens to like,” the panel wrote. “They can ban bullfights and cockfights and the abuse and neglect of animals.” For more info click here

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