A bizarre city law requires them to obtain from police a special ID card declaring their citizenship and provide a thumbprint, photograph, and catalog of peculiar marks and scars. But that law was not enforced until recently.
Noncompliance is a misdemeanor.
Several union workers have told the council they put their jobs at risk if they did not apply for the card. In response, City Council members pleaded ignorance of the law, and city staff suspended it while reviewing its legality. The council is likely to repeal the ordinance on March 20. Carolyn Pelcak, a HERE shop steward at Disneyland and a practicing attorney who addressed the council, later scoffed at the council members professed ignorance of the law. That s their job to know.