Fingerprint recognition in schools

[Roland Perry]

In article <48E88EB5.1090001@pelicancrossing.net>, Wendy M. Grossman 
<wendyg@pelicancrossing.net> writes
>The really hilarious bit about NY is that when they eventually at long 
>last brought in photos - sometime in the late 1980s, I think - they 
>made everyone apply in person so they could be photographed (they were 
>very inexperienced in Ithaca when they did mine, and it took them a few 
>tries). Since then, all renewals have been by mail. So my license has a 
>20-yo picture on it that was bad to begin with. AFAIAA there's no 
>requirement that I show up in person when it next expires, in 2010, either.

In Georgia they give you an eyetest at 64, so that and subsequent 
renewals have to be done in person [1]. As Georgia also mandates renewal 
in person when you change address (no doubt so they can check the new 
proof-of-address), perhaps that mops up everyone sufficiently (do they 
have a valid NY address on file for you).

I note my UK photo-licence will need renewing in the not too distant 
future (after x years [2], rather than me attaining a particular age), 
something I only realised by recently reading about people caught out 
but that. Of course, the licence has a date on it in half-point, but 
like many others I'd assumed it was age related.

[1] For UK readers: the DL renewal centres in Georgia are spread about 
the place in exactly the same way as the new Border Agency Passport 
interview/ID Card issuing centres.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4967276.stm

[2] One of the "improvements" of the plastic licence is that it doesn't 
actually say when it was first issued [although you can deduce when the 
test was passed from the counterpart], just when it was last renewed (in 
my case because of a change of address).
-- 
Roland Perry