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A proposal to allow residents to use their card from the Los Angeles Public Library as identification has run into opposition from one city official.

Councilman Mitch Englander, who chairs the Public Safety Committee, said he will fight the proposal from Councilman Richard Alarcón to allow those without driver’s licenses or other forms of identification to use the library card as a form of ID.

“I think it’s ludicrous,” Englander said Tuesday. “To have a proposal like this, made on a day like this, marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, is disgusting.”

Englander, who also is a reserve police officer, said he did not believe that library cards serving as identifications would work.

“There is no real way to determine if the person who has the identification is who they say they are,” Englander said.

Alarcón has proposed allowing the cards to be used as identification to help people with banking and financial services.

The cards could not be used as a substitute for driver’s licenses or as protection from deportation.

Alarcón said applicants would pay a fee of up to $20 for the card and allow them to make financial transactions, including use of ATMs.

San Francisco has a city-issued identification card that is accepted at banks, airlines and local businesses.

Officials with the immigration rights group CHIRLA said they support the proposal as a way to strengthen links between residents and those who provide services.

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