Tech Impressions dot net

Tech imPRESSions Online: Serving the Texas Tech Community since 2006

Fake IDs...

At 16 you can drive a vehicle … at 18 you can vote and purchase a lottery ticket…and on your 21st birthday you can legally purchase and consume alcohol. 

While today most people want to be younger... some minors pretend to be older so that they can purchase alcohol and get into bars and clubs.

 

Caught in the act

Minors using fake identification to enter and drink at bars are concerns, but these businesses know what to do when they encounter a fake driver's license. Read more.

 

21 means 21: It's the law

It was only a little over two decades ago when the drinking age was 18.  It was in 1984 when states where faced with a choice: Raise the drinking age to 21 or lose federal funding for highways. Read more.

 

Restaurant staff certification not required

The TABC has several guidelines for restaurant owners and workers to follow regarding fake IDs. These guidelines include feeling for bumps on the ID, asking patrons about ID information and matching photo information to the information on the ID. Read more.

 

Video

The Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission’s Alcoholic Beverage Code says misrepresentation of age by a minor is if the minor states that he or she is 21 years old or presents any document that indicates that he or she is 21 or older to a person engaged in selling or serving alcoholic beverages.  videoWatch this.

 

 


Tech imPRESSions Online is a production of senior journalism students at Texas Tech University
who are enrolled in Multiplatform News Delivery at the College of Mass Communications
PO Box 43082 • Lubbock, TX 79409-3082 • 806-742-3385