Identity Fraud and the DMV
Monday, March 06, 2006
This morning, I called the DMV to find out why my license had been suspended and why my insurance company was going to cancel my car insurance. I had assumed that the San Francisco DPT had placed some kind of hold on my license for one or several of the 12 parking tickets I have received in the last 8 months. Turns out, I have a warrant for my arrest issued by the police in Walnut Creek. Someone by the name of "Jose Hernandez Hernandez" was pulled over for a seatbelt violation on May 31st 2005. He was ticketed for the seatbelt violation as well as not having his license or proof of insurance. At this time, he should have been arrested or at the very least THOUROUGHLY IDENTIFIED. The officer gathered his personal data:
NAME: Jose Hernandez Hernandez
ADDRESS: 1122 98th Ave, Oakland CA
DOB: Same exact day as mine, 27 years ago next month.
VEHICLE: 91 Chevy Pickup
LIC PLATE: 5KYD300
Next, that data went to the Superior Court of Contra Costa County were it sat until September before being sent to the DMV. Somewhere between the cop, the court and the DMV, somebody in the government looked up the name and DOB on the ticket and applied it to the record that they found and thought to be correct.
THEY WERE WRONG!
Now I must go to Walnut Creek, schedule a court date, go home for a few weeks, come back and plead not guilty for an offense I had nothing to do with. It was not the other Jose's fault, but the fault of the court and DMV for not verifying identity at the time of the citation. Good thing Jose H H did not comit murder!
This is the second time I have become a victim of government identity mixup in the last 4 years. My freedom is not only compromised, but gone until further notice. I must live in fear until I can get this straightened out. Furthermore, I have NEVER had my identity stolen for the purposes of fraud. Once I dropped a credit card, but providian fixed it immediately.
There is a HUGE hole in the system. All this crap about homeland security doesn't mean a damn thing if police cannot accurately identify someone they have pulled over. This man could have been a terrorist or a wanted criminal and all he had to do was not carry an id! I am pissed and there is nobody to complain to except the judge. The DMV was absolutely useless about solving the problem or fixing their database. The judge is the
I am contemplating changing my name to some combination of numbers and symbols and the letter "z".
NAME: Jose Hernandez Hernandez
ADDRESS: 1122 98th Ave, Oakland CA
DOB: Same exact day as mine, 27 years ago next month.
VEHICLE: 91 Chevy Pickup
LIC PLATE: 5KYD300
Next, that data went to the Superior Court of Contra Costa County were it sat until September before being sent to the DMV. Somewhere between the cop, the court and the DMV, somebody in the government looked up the name and DOB on the ticket and applied it to the record that they found and thought to be correct.
THEY WERE WRONG!
Now I must go to Walnut Creek, schedule a court date, go home for a few weeks, come back and plead not guilty for an offense I had nothing to do with. It was not the other Jose's fault, but the fault of the court and DMV for not verifying identity at the time of the citation. Good thing Jose H H did not comit murder!
This is the second time I have become a victim of government identity mixup in the last 4 years. My freedom is not only compromised, but gone until further notice. I must live in fear until I can get this straightened out. Furthermore, I have NEVER had my identity stolen for the purposes of fraud. Once I dropped a credit card, but providian fixed it immediately.
There is a HUGE hole in the system. All this crap about homeland security doesn't mean a damn thing if police cannot accurately identify someone they have pulled over. This man could have been a terrorist or a wanted criminal and all he had to do was not carry an id! I am pissed and there is nobody to complain to except the judge. The DMV was absolutely useless about solving the problem or fixing their database. The judge is the
I am contemplating changing my name to some combination of numbers and symbols and the letter "z".
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