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Dear Residents,
I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you directly through
The Journal. As county clerk for Monmouth County, I am responsible
for the recording of all property records for the county, and I oversee
a large part of the elections process, manage the county’s open public
records system, assist people seeking passports, and store many
of the county’s historic records.
During this current health crisis, many government functions
from all levels of government have been changed or canceled. I
want to make you aware that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
has extended the enforcement deadline of the Federal REAL
ID Act from October 2020 to Oct. 1, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The federal government enacted the REAL ID Act after the Sept.
11, 2001 terror attacks to require better secure identification for
domestic travel and access to certain federal facilities. With this oneyear
extension, residents will now have additional time to comply
with the law.
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
starting October 2021, you must have a REAL ID compliant driver
license/ID to fly within the U.S., unless you use a U.S. passport or
another federally approved form of identification. Until that date, a
standard New Jersey driver license will be valid for air travel within
the U.S.
Prior to the pandemic, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission
(MVC) had been issuing REAL ID driver license/IDs at the three
MVC locations in Monmouth County – Eatontown, Freehold and Hazlet
– by appointment only. Now that the federal government has
extended the compliance deadline by a full year, the pressure and
anxiety of obtaining a REAL ID compliant ID is lifted for the time being.
Visit the MVC website at State.nj.us/mvc for more information
and to confirm their hours of operation.
I encourage all Monmouth County residents to be mindful of
the REAL ID Act compliance deadline of Oct. 1, 2021 by obtaining a
REAL ID or alternative, such as a U.S. passport, for future domestic
travel by air or entrance to certain federal buildings. Once we get
through this difficult health crisis, residents can then turn their attention
to complying with the Real ID Act for future travel.
Residents can also obtain U.S. passports, which are Real ID
compliant, at the Monmouth County Clerk’s three passport offices
located in Freehold, Eatontown and Neptune, once our offices are
open to the public again. Visit MonmouthCountyClerk.com for
more information about the passport application process and to
confirm the status of our hours of operations for our offices.
I hope that you and your families
remain healthy. If I can be of any assistance
to you, please contact my office
by phone at 732-431-7324 or via
email to CountyClerk@co.monmouth.
nj.us.
Sincerely,
Christine Giordano Hanlon, Esq.
Monmouth County Clerk
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