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Council asks staff to review municipal ID privacy concerns; continues ordinance change
Summary
City council continued a proposed ordinance change to make municipal identification free, asking staff to return with privacy and implementation analysis before revising the code.
Richmond City Council on March 4 continued consideration of a proposed change to the municipal identification ordinance that would make city IDs available at no cost to qualifying residents. Councilmembers discussed privacy concerns raised by civil-liberties groups about data-sharing risks tied to third-party vendor processes and bank/vendor functions used by some municipal-ID programs.
Civil-liberties advocates and privacy groups warned the council in public comment that…
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