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Ulster Co. clerk says she will abide by driver's license law, if passed
Mar 27, 2019 12:00 pm
Paul Kirby is reporting for the Daily Freeman Ulster County Clerk Nina Postupack says she will abide by a state law, if passed, that would allow undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses.
Postupack, who oversees the Ulster office of the state Department of Motor Vehicles, did not express a personal position on the proposed Driver's License Access and Privacy Act. “If legislation is passed and signed by the governor to issue driver's licenses to undocumented individuals, our office will comply with the law,” she wrote in an email. This a change in Postupack's position, Kirby writes. When then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer proposed that driver's licenses be made available to undocumented immigrants more than a decade ago, Postupack strongly opposed the plan. The Driver's License Access and Privacy Act is currently making its way through the Legislature and has a good chance of becoming law. Local law-enforcement officials — Ulster County Sheriff Juan Figueroa, Kingston Police Chief Egidio Tinti and Saugerties Police Chief Joseph Sinagra — have come out in favor of the proposal. The measured is opposed by local GOP Assembly members Chris Tague and Brian Miller. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.