Alabama Closes Numerous Driver’s License Offices, Atmore To Remain Open

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The House Rural Caucus, a 40-member group of lawmakers from Alabama’s less-populous counties, expressed displeasure at the license office cuts Thursday, but caucus leader Rep. David Standridge, R-Hayden, said he didn’t think voting rights were threatened by the cuts. But for the following renewal in 2019, you would need to visit a license office to take a new photo. Effective today, the traveling Driver License Examiners will be reallocated to staff District Driver License Offices full-time. The governor argued that the language was an intrusion of his executive powers, and the closures took effect with the next fiscal year on October 1. Additionally, to help citizens who now utilize these part-time, satellite locations, ALEA has developed an interactive Citizen Services Locator Map that will identify and locate the closest office and the services it provides. Anna Morris, spokeswoman for the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, said via email that 44 drivers-license offices will remain open throughout the state and that other officials, including probate judges and revenue commissioners, will continue to handle renewals.

ALEA Secretary Spencer Collier urged people to use online services for renewing licenses.

No ALEA personnel are losing their jobs due to the closures, Appling said.

“Since March I’ve been around that state continuously telling the people of the state if we didn’t adequately fund the General Fund, essential services of government would be cut”, he said.

ALEA is moving personnel from 31 part-time satellite offices back to its district offices.

Columnist Kyle Whitmire writes that 29 of the state’s 67 counties will now lack a driver’s license office-and, depending on whether you define the “black belt” as constituting 18 or 24 counties, either 12 or 15 of those newly office-less counties will be in the historically black area.

The Department of Conservation is expected to announce changes at state parks later Wednesday. After the ruling, those states no longer had to get prior federal approval. People without a license can also go to the county’s Board of Registrars for a voter-only state-issued photo ID, he said. The GOP has said the laws are meant to weed out voter fraud.

Look at the five counties that voted most solidly Democratic? That won’t make a big dent in the deficit, he said, but it does correct staffing that didn’t make sense. Sanders has made voting rights a part of his standard stump speech, calling officials who support and pass voter-ID laws “political cowards” for trying to keep people from voting.