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TWIC * USA - GAO Says Half of Workers Have Not Applied for
Nearly a year into the application process, more than half of the estimated 1.2 million U.S. transportation workers have not applied for their Transportation Worker Identification Credential
Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics, by Eric Miller -1 Oct 2008: -- ... that, beginning April 15, 2009, will be required to gain entrance to all the nation’s ports and other transportation facilities... So far, fewer than 498,000 workers, about 40%, have applied for TWIC cards at 149 fixed and 183 mobile enrollment sites. Of that number, about 319,000 cards have been activated for use, said Stephen Lord, acting director of homeland security and justice issues for the Government Accountability Office... Laura Moskowitz, staff attorney for the National Employment Law Project, said that incomplete FBI records were responsible for the roughly one-third of the 16,000 applicants denied a TWIC... In some cases, FBI records did not show the final disposition of an arrest, while in other cases they did not distinguish whether an offense was a misdemeanor or felony... Moskowitz said that the denials show a “serious problem with the FBI’s records”...
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