Gut and Go: Adding Citizenship Status to Driver's Licenses

Included Bills:

• HB 2448: Citizenship on ID's

This reckless bill, which does nothing to strengthen election security or address any demonstrated vulnerabilities in Kansas elections, would require citizenship status to be listed on Kansas driver’s licenses. This is part of much larger, coordinated attack on civil rights and immigrant communities, raising serious concerns regarding privacy, discrimination, and public safety. Requiring citizenship status to appear on driver’s licenses would expose this personal information to employers, landlords, businesses, law enforcement, and private individuals, all contexts in which a person’s citizenship status is unnecessary. This unnecessary disclosure invites discrimination and profiling and creates a two-tiered system of identification that treats people differently based on immigration status.