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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2578 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her.

Visit an inner-city DMV some time.





Dala  ·  2578 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The police department would be the ones at fault with the tickets as they would do the entry and be the ones picking the wrong record. The DMV can only work with what they are given. We had a person whose job it was to untangle these sorts of issues. My personal experience says blame the officers, their handwriting is shit. Possibly New York's ticket form is lacking some fields that would help differentiate who's who as well.

dublinben  ·  2578 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm saddened that the largest city in the US relied on nothing more than Name + DOB to identify people in their records. They will send someone fines and possibly to jail based on the shoddiest of paperwork.