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Gov. Kemp signs $27.3B state budget, will block police raises Jeff Amy, Associated Press Tags:  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp during recorded address April 7, 2021. ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday signed a 2022 Georgia state budget that restores some money to K-12 education, increases some mental health funding, and pays nursing home operators more. However, the Republican governor is telling agencies not to increase salaries for some state troopers and game wardens by creating new ranks, sayi...

State officials noted that not everyone qualifies for online renewal, specifically those who are required to take a written or road test. Those who are eligible for online renewal will receive a letter containing their PIN approximately 90 days before their driver’s license expiration date, the Secretary of States Office said. Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, White has extended drivers licenses and ID card expiration dates multiple times. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security...

AllOnGeorgia May 7, 2021 As May welcomes in warmer weather and the motorcycle riding season begins to peak, the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) Motorcycle Safety Program (GMSP) wants to remind all motorists that May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month and the message is to “Share The Road.” DDS Commissioner Spencer R. Moore encourages motorcyclists to be aware of their surroundings and use caution at all times. “The best way to celebrate Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month is t...

“I applaud the decision by DHS to extend the REAL ID deadline to May 3, 2023 – 19 months past the old deadline of Oct. 1, 2021,” White said. “This is the proper and necessary action in response to the pandemic.”  In order to obtain a Real ID, residents will be required to visit an Illinois Secretary of State Driver Services facility and provide documents that prove their identity, their Social Security number, a written signature and two documents that show proof of residency. A Real...

April 30, 2021 SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White is reminding motorists that they may drive without an up-to-date license plate sticker affixed to their license plate if they have their receipt showing they purchased a sticker online before the expiration date. The receipt, which is generated after an online sticker purchase, is valid for no more than 30 days from the expiration of the previous license plate registration sticker’s date. “Many customers visit Driver...

Corporal Collin Flynn of the Flynn said GCPD investigators had interviewed survivors and witnesses of the crash and now believe that Manire made a ‘reckless’ last second lane change from I-85 to I-985 on Saturday night, causing the van to flipped with 16 people inside. I-85 Gwinnett crash victims at hands of Monica Elizabeth Manire. Six people were killed and 10 others were injured when  . ‘We are going to look into whether or not the van was overloaded, either at capacity for people or...

ROCKFORD — People seeking help with jobless claims should have in-person access to local employment offices, according to a group of state representatives from the area. A resolution filed by state Rep. Joe Sosnowski, R-Rockford, calls on the Illinois Department of Employment Security to reopen employment offices across the state that have been shut down since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. IDES offices can safely reopen using COVID-19 public health guidelines, including social di...

REAL ID Deadline Extended to 2023: What That Means For Illinois © TNS via Getty Images Information about the Real ID requirements is posted at the Secretary of State’s driver’s license facility in the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago, Ill. on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) Illinois residents who have not yet received a REAL ID can breathe a sigh of relief - at least for another two years. The U.S. Department of Homelan...

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White commended the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for extending the federal REAL ID deadline to May 3, 2023. DHS cited that it extended the deadline due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the impact the virus is having on the general public and driver’s license and ID card-issuing agencies nationwide. White, along with other state and business leaders from around the country, had called on DHS to extend the REAL ID deadline due to the pandemic....

UpdatedTue, Apr 27, 2021 at 3:37 pm ET Reply A U.S. passport is one of several documents you can use in Georgia to prove your identity for the purposes of a REAL ID card. (Shutterstock / piaphotography) GEORGIA — U.S. residents will have an additional 19 months to get their REAL ID after the Department of Homeland Security delayed the requirement for air travelers to have a REAL ID-compliant form of identification by Oct. 1. The deadline has been postponed until May 3, 2023, for Georgia and a...