Florida Police Acquire Scanning Technology to Verify IDs
Florida's new digital driver's licenses are harder to counterfeit, but require new technology to verify
As part of ongoing efforts to safeguard its students and community, Florida State University's Partnership for Alcohol Responsibility purchased ID magnifier readers and scanners valued at over $11,700 for area law enforcement agencies, enabling them to verify new "digitalized" driver's licenses and identification cards to help reduce underage drinking.
Since June 16 all new or renewed Florida driver's licenses and identification cards have boasted technological advances that create the most secure cards ever issued in the state, including digitized portrait images and other security features. As fake IDs have become increasingly sophisticated and hard to spot, legal IDs have also evolved, becoming more difficult to replicate but in turn requiring new verification technology for law enforcement.
