at aloha graphics. You can make copies of anything but a sign of the times right now. One of the most popular bringing your Covid vaccination card will make copies for you. Mark Mariam says a few 100 people have come in to make copies of their vaccine cards for safekeeping. We don't laminate the original. But well a laminated copies. Those cards also key to travel in Hawaii with the safe travels at requiring them in order to bypass the mandatory 10 day quarantine. You show that on the way up. But mariam warns at first glance there also harder to verify than other government paperwork. We see secure documents all day every day as a print shop. And what we've seen from the covid vaccination cards is there's not a lot of security features on it. Unlike checks or social security cards, there's not much protection there all in black and white on common card stock paper. More opportunity for misuse. That's probably true. And that's exactly what state officials say happened over the weekend. This father and son duo Trevor and Norbert chung arrested after someone tipped off officials, they had fake vaccine documents. The problem is the safe travels app doesn't use artificial intelligence to check the vaccine cards once they're uploaded and only those cards issued in Hawaii are automatically cross reference to the state health departments database. Beyond that, your word is only as good as that card in your pocket. You presume that people are telling the truth and being honest about it. Unfortunately there's bad people out there that are going to misuse any kind of system that's in place. Cool. I mean, anything else?
Father, son arrested after police say they tried to use fake COVID-19 cards to travel
Updated: 4:37 AM CDT Aug 13, 2021
A father and son are facing charges after officials said they used fake COVID-19 vaccine passports to try to visit Hawaii. Trevor and Norbert Chung were arrested at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport after someone tipped off officials about the fake cards, KITV reports. "In reality, you're taking a big risk and a big chance of falsifying documents that, in most states, getting the vaccine and PCR test is free, or of a nominal fee, and so why you would try and attempt that or do it through a falsified document, really you have to ask why," Joe Logan, with the investigative division of Hawaii Attorney General's office, told KITV.Now, the state has formed a COVID-19 task force to look for similar violations and is warning others of the penalties for using false vaccination cards — up to a $5,000 fine and a year in jail. At Aloha Graphics in Honolulu, Mark Merriam told KITV hundreds of people have come in to make copies of their vaccine cards, which are required to bypass the state's mandatory 10-day travel quarantine. But Merriam said it's hard to verify the cards are real."We see secure documents all day every day as a print shop, and what we've seen from the COVID vaccination cards is there's not a lot of security features on it," he said. "More opportunity for misuse, that's probably true."
HONOLULU (Video: KITV via CNN) — A father and son are facing charges after officials said they used fake COVID-19 vaccine passports to try to visit Hawaii.
Trevor and Norbert Chung were arrested at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport after someone tipped off officials about the fake cards, .
"In reality, you're taking a big risk and a big chance of falsifying documents that, in most states, getting the vaccine and PCR test is free, or of a nominal fee, and so why you would try and attempt that or do it through a falsified document, really you have to ask why," Joe Logan, with the investigative division of Hawaii Attorney General's office, told KITV.
Now, the state has formed a COVID-19 task force to look for similar violations and is warning others of the penalties for using false vaccination cards — up to a $5,000 fine and a year in jail.
At Aloha Graphics in Honolulu, Mark Merriam told KITV hundreds of people have come in to make copies of their vaccine cards, which are required to bypass the state's mandatory 10-day travel quarantine.
But Merriam said it's hard to verify the cards are real.
"We see secure documents all day every day as a print shop, and what we've seen from the COVID vaccination cards is there's not a lot of security features on it," he said. "More opportunity for misuse, that's probably true."