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RALEIGH –A young immigrant who meets all requirements for a North Carolina driver’s license but has been denied a learner’s permit while officials reconsider the state’s policy will deliver a petition with more than 22,000 signatures to the office of North Carolina Gov.
CHAPEL HILL - Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, will deliver a Feb. 13 keynote address at the annual Human Rights Week event sponsored by the Campus Y Social Justice Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
RALEIGH – Two of North Carolina’s leading civil rights organizations are asking North Carolina Transportation Secretary Anthony Tata to reinstate a Department of Motor Vehicles policy that allowed young immigrants authorized to live and work in the United States to be issued driver’s licenses.
RALEIGH – The North Carolina Attorney General’s Office informed the state Department of Motor Vehicles today that young immigrants who are “lawfully present” in the United States and have been granted work permits under a federal program meet all requirements for North Carolina driver’s licenses
RALEIGH – Two of North Carolina’s leading civil rights organizations are asking state officials to reinstate a policy that allowed young immigrants who have been authorized to be in the United States and granted work permits under a federal program to receive North Carolina driver’s licenses.
RALEIGH – Today the state of North Carolina announced that it would appeal a December ruling from a U.S. District Court that found the state’s plan to offer state drivers a “Choose Life” license plate but not an alternative plate with a pro-choice message was unconstitutional.