Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Elm City tries to attract Elis to municipal IDs

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, September 7, 2007

With a major outreach effort potentially on the horizon, Yale students may soon have an easier time counting themselves as members of the New Haven community.

Students and City Hall officials said they are exploring strategies to register Yalies with the city’s municipal ID card program, the first in America to offer ID cards to all residents, both documented and undocumented.

“I encourage all Yale students to get an ID card because we’d like for all New Haven residents to get an ID card,” City Hall policy analyst Emily Byrne said. “We want it to become a metropass where...

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