{"id":486673,"date":"2025-10-09T21:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486673\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:37:15","slug":"missouri-issues-show-me-id-app-warning-to-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486673\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri issues \u2018Show-Me ID\u2019 app warning to businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; An app used to verify IDs may no longer work like it\u2019s supposed to, according to the State of Missouri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control warned businesses that sell alcohol and tobacco to pay attention when using the \u201cShow-Me ID\u2019 app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The app\u2019s developer stopped supporting the app on Sept. 30, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBecause the Show-Me ID app was helpful to alcohol and tobacco retailers and enforcement personnel, we are working with state partners to explore potential options for restoring the app\u2019s capabilities,\u201d ATC Acting State Supervisor Christin Templeton said. \u201cWe are in an exploratory phase and do not have a timeline at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The good news is that while no one can download the app, users who already have the app can continue to use it as long as it remains compatible with a device\u2019s operating system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In addition to scanning barcodes on IDs, the app also allows birth dates to be manually entered to calculate an age, according to the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The state warns that businesses shouldn\u2019t rely only on the app to verify if a customer is old enough to purchase alcohol or tobacco products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; An app used to verify IDs may no longer work like it\u2019s supposed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[44853,160948,160949,32376,160950,14800,547,22339,160947,53,16,160951,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-486673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-age-verification","9":"tag-alcohol-and-tobacco-sales","10":"tag-alcohol-sales","11":"tag-id-verification","12":"tag-minor-in-possession","13":"tag-missouri","14":"tag-mobile","15":"tag-public-safety","16":"tag-show-me-id-app","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-underage-drinking","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115346370910581847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}