I have found that, in dealing with State agencies, it is often much easier
to get an answer by going to the government's website than by trying to
call--'phone tree hell' is the word for it.
My experience--YMMV--has been that if you can get to the part of the State
government's website that discusses the agency within whose purview the
question comes, locate an e-mail address, and use that to ask your question,
you will get an answer within 24 hours.
Bruce Alan Wilson
DiplomAssist Educational Research
Information & Advisory Service
"Bringing the School to the Student"
http://www.matrixinet.com/~dipast
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gleason, Diana" <dianagleason@dwt.com>
To: "'Lynch, Victoria B'" <Victoria.Lynch@Obermayer.com>; "'Law Lib Post
Message'" <Law-Lib@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:21 PM
Subject: RE: Driver's license
> Victoria,
>
> Some states do not permit public access to driver's license information
due
> to privacy laws. You might check with the motor vehicle department,
> legislature or Attorney General's office to see if that is the case. If
so,
> you may not even be able to find out whether a person has a license. And
> unfortunately, you may still experience phone tree hell!
>
> Diana
>
> Diana Gleason
> Reference Librarian
> Davis Wright Tremaine
> Suite 2300
> 1300 S.W. 5th Ave.
> Portland, Or. 97205
> (503) 778-5242
> fax: (503) 778-5299
> dianagleason@dwt.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lynch, Victoria B [SMTP:Victoria.Lynch@Obermayer.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 7:34 AM
> > To: 'Law Lib Post Message'
> > Subject: Driver's license
> >
> > Happy Friday all. Does anyone know of a service or database that will
> > give me access to state driver's license records? All I need to know is
> > whether or not a person has a driver's license in the state in order to
> > establish a residency claim (he says he isn't). I do not want a driver
> > record or anything more intrusive than a yes/no answer as to whether or
> > not he holds a valid license.
> >
> > I've tried WL and Lexis, but they do not have PA records on line. I've
> > also tried calling the PA Dept of Transportation, and you can imagine
> > where that got me - phone tree hell.
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Victoria B. Lynch
> > Law Librarian
> > Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP
> > 1617 JFK Blvd., 19th Floor
> > Philadelphia, PA 19103
> > victoria.lynch@obermayer.com
> > (215) 665-3181
> >
>
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