Originally Posted by
SWCPHX
You'll find that several states, counties, and cities have laws on the books requiring citizens to present ID to LEOs when asked during the course of an investigation, stop, etc.
Yes, there are some such laws on the books, but they are of dubious Constitutional validity. Keep in mind that
in its decision in Hiibel the Supreme Court didn't reach the issue of a requirement to carry, produce, or display tangible evidence of identity, but considered only the issue of a law requiring
verbal self-identification:
[T]he Nevada Supreme Court has interpreted the instant statute to require only that a suspect disclose his name. It apparently does not require him to produce a driver's license or any other document. If he chooses either to state his name or communicate it to the officer by other means, the statute is satisfied and no violation occurs.
That was contrary to the facts -- the recordings show that Hiibel was asked to "show" identification, not merely to identify himself verbally -- but what counts as precedent is what the Supremes found the facts to be.