We entered all the information on our subject in Illinois and voila! It worked. By entering details about the person, including name, date of birth and gender, you can determine the unique driver’s license identification number. Apparently, in certain states, the algorithm used to generate the driver’s license numbers is always the same. That’s where the Driver’s License Calculator comes in. In other states - Illinois, for example - records can be searched only by driver’s license number. In New York, however, a driver’s abstract can be searched by name and date of birth, or just by the name. It takes a few weeks to get the record back. In Connecticut, the request must be submitted in person with the person’s name, date of birth and most recent address. (In every case, there must be a permissible purpose as per the Drivers Privacy Protection Act.)Įvery state is different, however. Depending on the state, an investigator may have direct access to the state Department of Motor Vehicles record database. In many states, private investigators can obtain a driving record abstract with simply a name and date of birth. We found out that in order to obtain a driving record abstract, you need a driver’s license number, which we didn’t have. We were recently working on a case in which we needed to obtain a driving record abstract for an individual in Illinois.
