Warrant in Texas, Drivers License in California?

Latest bizarre* search phrase to bring someone to our site:

“if I have a warrant for my arrest in texas, can I get a Drivers License in california”

Here's the short answer for you, “Sure, as long as you don't mind a stay in the California pokey with a resultant trip back to Texas to satisfy the warrant!”

Really, do you think that computers are just that badly programmed or that States don't trade data to believe that you can just nonchalantly move across state lines and get off scot-free?

But, you did come, and I'll be naive and believe the warrant is for some victimless crime, so in that vane I'll dole out some hopefully not useless possible roads to take:

a) Come back to Texas, take your lumps, and get eaten by the man...
b) Start consciously driving a lot better and emulate the guy in Europe who drove for about 60 years without ever getting a license...
c) Get some forged documentation and become a new person...
d) Move to Mexico, Canada, ...

Personally I'm most amused by b). But, c) seems like the best route, because if the supposed 30 to 100 million uneducated, poor, law breaking Illegal Immigrants in the United States can do it, well, it just can't be that hard for us? Right?

Drive safe,

MJ

*Okay, not the most bizarre. Realistically I won't print the most bizarre, as I have no desire for more of that kind of traffic...

Update: I found where they were originally going: This Really Isn't Necessary A true story of one man's experience having an unknown warrant issued in Michigan and being arrested in Houston, Texas while getting a new drivers license. It's a good read even if you're not in the situation. -MJ