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LOUisiANA

Woman run over by

pre-Mardi Gras float

New Orleans is mourning the

death of a woman who was run

over by a parade float as the city

celebrates the season leading up

to Mardi Gras. Police are still

investigating the accident,

spokesman Juan Barnes said

Thursday.

The Orleans Parish Coroner’s

Office identified her Thursday as

Geraldine Carmouche, 58, of

New Orleans.

Carmouche apparently tried

to cross between two parts of a

tandem float, tripped over a

hitch connecting the sections

and was run over, witnesses told

news outlets.

It happened Wednesday night

during the parade of the Mystic

Krewe of Nyx, an all-female

Carnival group. The accident

involved float 21, New Orleans

Police Superintendent Shaun

Ferguson said.

The parade was ended early,

and the rest of the floats were

diverted off the parade route.

Mardi Gras is Feb. 25, but the

Fat Tuesday celebration is

preceded by a week or more of

parades and parties each year.

— Associated Press

CALiFORNiA

Assembly apologizes

for Japanese camps

California lawmakers on

Thursday became the first

political leaders in the nation’s

most populous state to apologize

for discriminating against

Japanese Americans and

helping the U.S. government

send them to internment camps

after Japan bombed Pearl

Harbor during World War II.

The Assembly unanimously

passed the resolution and

welcomed several people who

were imprisoned in the camps

and their families.

The resolution came a day

after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D)

declared a Day of Remembrance

for Feb. 19, when President

Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an

executive order in 1942 that led

to the imprisonment of

Japanese Americans across 10

camps in the U.S. West and

Arkansas.

The resolution said anti-

Japanese sentiment began in

California as early as 1913, when

the state passed the Alien Land

Law, targeting Japanese farmers

who were perceived as a threat

by some in the massive

agricultural industry. Seven

years later, the state barred

anyone with Japanese ancestry

from buying farmland.

Senators will take up a

version of the resolution later in

the year and send it to the

governor to sign.

California has the largest

population of people of

Japanese descent of any state,

numbering roughly 430,000.

A congressional commission

in 1983 concluded that the

detentions were a result of

“racial prejudice, war hysteria

and failure of political

leadership.” Five years later, the

U.S. government formally

apologized and paid $20,000 in

reparations to each victim.

— Associated Press

NeW YORK

Student dies of flu

a fter garbled 911 call

A college student was found

dead in his home of the flu after

a garbled 911 call left rescuers

with no means of locating him,

authorities said.

Police and firefighters in Troy

spent 45 minutes on Feb. 10

searching the City Station

apartment complex where

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

graduate student Yeming Shen

lived and left without finding

him. Nearly six hours later, his

roommate arrived to find him

dead from the flu. An autopsy

determined the student had

influenza A, officials said.

Emergency dispatch system

was able to provide a general

location of Sixth Avenue, which

included two five-story

apartment buildings.

Five officers, three firefighters

and a police dog searched the

common areas on each floor but

had only his cellphone number

to go on and could not locate his

apartment, authorities said.

— Associated Press

Digest

timothy a. clary/agence France-Presse/getty images

Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein arrives Thursday for a

third day of jury deliberations in Manhattan in his sexual assault trial.

Jurors ended the day without reaching a verdict and will resume

work Friday. Weinstein, 67, faces up to life in prison if found guilty of

the most serious charge against him, predatory sexual assault.

Politics & the Nation

diately, s tates are permitted to use

a secure electronic process to ac-

cept applicants’ documents. Even

if states implement that pre-sub-

mission system, applicants will

still be r equired to make an in-per-

son D MV visit.

“Retaining the information in

advance eliminates time-consum-

ing activities associated with the

physical scanning and retention

of source d ocuments that typically

occurs during the applicant’s

DMV visit,” Wolf said in the letter.

“We understand that this has a

direct impact on overall applicant

wait times and customer satisfac-

tion. DHS recommends that

States c onsider i mplementing t his

option.”

It is unclear if and when indi-

vidual states will implement the

pre-submission option. Forty-

eight states and the District of

Columbia are issuing Real IDs.

Oklahoma and Oregon have not

started issuing the credential but

are on track to being compliant,

according to DHS.

Travel industry groups have

been advocating for the option to

allow people to submit applica-

tions online, saying i t would speed

the r ate of R eal ID compliance a nd

mitigate challenges at overbur-

dened DMVs. However, some said

they had hoped DHS would also

have eliminated the requirement

for a n in-person visit, which c ritics

say is o utdated and unnecessary.

“We applaud DHS for recogniz-

ing the need to modernize the

REAL ID application process,”

To ri Emerson Barnes, executive

vice president of p ublic affairs and

policy at the U.S. Travel Associa-

tion, said in a statement. “Howev-

er, the c hallenge remains that tens

of millions of Americans do not

yet possess REAL ID-compliant

identification, and we won’t solve

this issue by pushing people to the

DMV.”

The U.S. Travel Association and

other industry groups have been

urging DHS to modernize the ap-

plication process, saying that,

without upgrades, tens of thou-

sands of people could be unpre-

pared to board a flight come Octo-

ber.

The Oct. 1 deadline will culmi-

nate the implementation of the

2005 domestic security program

known as the Real ID Act, which

was enacted after the Sept. 11,

2001, terrorist attacks to tighten

national standards for driver’s li-

censes and identification cards

and overhaul how they are issued

and produced. The Real ID was

designed to combat forgery and

fraud of s tate-issued d ocuments.

Most states are in the early

phases of issuing the credentials,

which are generally identifiable

by a star i n the upper-right corner.

As the deadline approaches,

DMVs are likely to be overbur-

dened with thousands of appli-

cants.

Research by the travel associa-

tion last fall found a majority of

Americans — 5 7 percent — were

not aware that beginning Oct. 1,

they would need a Real ID license

to board a flight.

“Technology and security have

advanced greatly in the nearly

15 years since REAL ID was intro-

duced, and we encourage DHS

and C ongress to pursue additional

policy changes to facilitate A meri-

cans’ R EAL ID compliancy,” E mer-

son B arnes said.

[email protected]

BY LUZ LAZO

The Department of Homeland
Security will allow states to accept
documents for Real ID applica-
tions electronically, streamlining
the process for millions of Ameri-
cans to obtain the credential that
come fall will be needed to pass
through airport security check-
points.
Allowing applicants to submit
the necessary paperwork online
will help expedite service at de-
partments of motor vehicles
across the country, officials said.
Many state agencies are experi-
encing long lines and wait t imes as
they scramble to issue new driv-
er’s licenses and ID cards that
conform with the federal law that
tightens security requirements for
state-issued identification.
Beginning Oct. 1, only driver’s
licenses and state IDs that meet
Real ID requirements will be ac-
cepted for boarding commercial
flights. Travelers who don’t have a
Real ID will need credentials such
as a U.S. passport or military ID.
Officials fear that because most
travelers today use state-issued
identification to board domestic
flights, it could be chaotic at U.S.
airports come O ctober, if no m ajor
progress is made on the issuance
of Real I Ds.
States have reported that
95 million — about 3 4 percent — of
all driver’s license holders have
been issued R eal IDs, according to
DHS. Two-thirds o f the 276 million
Americans who have state-issued
cards have yet to get their R eal ID.
“While progress has b een made,
the r eal work is still a head,” a cting
DHS S ecretary Chad Wolf said in a
statement.
To obtain one of the new licens-
es, applicants must present two
proofs of residency, such a s a utili-
ty b ill a nd a bank statement; proof
of identity and legal residence in
the United States; and a Social
Security card. A W-2 form listing a
Social Security number is an ac-
ceptable alternative to a Social
Security card.
Residents who have changed
their names from what is on their
birth certificate need to provide
documentation of the change. For
example, a marriage certificate or
a court order granting the name
change.
The process requires an in-per-
son visit to a DMV office, and
people still need t o bring the docu-
ments w ith t hem t hen.
DHS had announced plans to
implement an online option to
ease the process. Wolf said the
agency is considering “other via-
ble options to improve upon this
process and continues doing ev-
erything it can to inform Ameri-
cans on the r equirement to obtain
a REAL ID before the full enforce-
ment deadline later this y ear.”
In a l etter sent to states Wednes-
day, Wolf s aid t hat effective imme-

DHS seeks to help Real ID applications

luz lazo/the Washington Post

A sign alerts passengers about an ID law change at an airport in

2017. Starting Oct. 1, only driver’s licenses and state IDs that meet

Real ID requirements will be accepted for commercial flights.

States may now accept

electronic documents

before issuing credential

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