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Monday, October 5, 2026 at 6:29 AM

Louisiana driver’s license system receives upgrade

Louisiana has upgraded its technology for issuing driver’s licenses, an improvement that Gov. Jeff Landry says will make it much faster to get a license or identification card.

“We came into office with a promise to fix it and we did,” Landry said in a video his communications office released Tuesday.

The state Office of Motor Vehicles replaced its decades-old system with a platform from CHAMP Titles Inc., a Cleveland, Ohio-based company. OMV locations were closed statewide last week to give the agency time to switch to the new system.

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