TORONTO – Call it a slight case of mistaken identity.
Ok, make that a slightly-more-than-slight case.
A Florida woman says she’s planning to take legal action against the Department of Motor Vehicles after she noticed a slight error on her recently-issued driver’s licence.
Instead of listing her as an organ donor, her licence identified her as a sexual predator.
Lemasters says she didn’t notice the error on her licence until she went to court four days later over a traffic ticket.
“I want to be an organ donor,” Lemasters said. “That’s what it was supposed to be on my driver’s licence. ‘Organ Donor’. It wasn’t supposed to be ‘Sexual Predator’ on there.”
So she called the licence office, who immediately apologized for the error.
“We of course apologized and asked her to come in, as we would anyone with an eye colour or an address issue – come in and we’d fix it immediately,” DMV office manager Mark O’Keefe said.
But Lemasters says the damage has been done. In the past two weeks, she says she was denied access to both a theme park and a hotel over the “Sexual Predator” label.
Now she’s planning to take legal action against the DMV, saying the process for labelling someone a “Sexual Predator” needs to be revised to provide more oversight.
“The state is basically adjudicating people the worst thing you can call someone, a child molester,” said Lemasters’ attorney, John Phillips. “It’s time to fix what’s on that licence so it doesn’t happen to person after person after person.”
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