{"id":267723,"date":"2026-04-14T18:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267723\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:49:24","slug":"newsom-announces-new-dmv-tech-to-protect-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267723\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom announces new DMV tech to protect identities"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"People<\/p>\n

People wait for their numbers to be called at a California DMV office in Sacramento on June 14, 2018. A statewide computer outage on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, disrupted in-person DMV services for several hours.<\/p>\n

Daniel Kim<\/p>\n

Sacramento Bee file<\/p>\n

The Department of Motor Vehicles is instituting new bar codes on identification documents and QR codes to further crack down on fraud and speed up wait times, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n

The White House has increasingly cited vague claims of \u201cfraud\u201d in California to justify intervening in state agencies in recent months<\/a>. Last week, a task force led by Vice President JD Vance claimed victory after the federal government suspended the licenses for 70 Los Angeles-based hospice providers. Newsom said in response<\/a> the state had suspended new licenses since 2022.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Newsom said the DMV would add new digital signatures to the back of drivers\u2019 licenses and ID cards so card readers could detect whether a signature was valid or had been altered. Residents will not have to get new IDs before they expire.<\/p>\n

The agency will also start allowing people to scan QR codes at office entrances to allow people to immediately check in and get in line instead of having to wait to check in at front desks.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia is stepping up its fight against fraud \u2014 full stop. We\u2019re strengthening security at the DMV, doubling down on protections that safeguard people\u2019s identities and personal information. That\u2019s what accountability looks like,\u201d Newsom said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The DMV was one of Newsom\u2019s first targets for action when he first entered office<\/a> in 2019. That year, he employed a strike team to overhaul the \u201cchronically mismanaged\u201d agency, which had struggled to issue federally required Real ID cards and long wait times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lia Russell<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Lia Russell covers California\u2019s governor for The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Capitol Bureau. Originally from San Francisco, Lia previously worked for The Baltimore Sun and the Bangor Daily News in Maine.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People wait for their numbers to be called at a California DMV office in Sacramento on June 14,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-267723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}