Sort of. My great aunt was working with district attorneys and was able to take myself and some of my cousins out there. It was a pretty fun experience.

We rode a train and went to the downtown area and we also met the US Attorney General at the time where he had a photo op for all of us. Was my first and only time meeting someone so high up in the US government and I remember them checking our IDs and had us sign in with Secret Service before getting to shake his hand and take a picture. I have no idea where that picture is but I remember the event very well.

We got to see some of what she did and interact with her coworkers and hang around the city area.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Why did they need a photo? It seems like an oddly specific way to keep tabs on one-time visitors of that kind.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 8 hours ago

When they took our photos? Oh that was more so for us as a souvenir. We got to meet and shake his hand and they took our picture and we got a copy of it to remember the occasion. About like meeting a celebrity at an event and they let you take your photo with them shaking their hand or doing something fun with them, just this being a political figure.

I was a kid so I didn’t have a photo ID, but I remember they did have me write down where I lived and my name and my great aunt gave them her photo ID to prove who she is. I’m pretty sure they did that also in case something happened, like if a bomb got left with him or something then they had a list of names of people who physically met with him. This was less than a decade after 9/11 so we were still in a pretty heightened time, security-wise. It was during the Bush administration and this was his Attorney General he appointed over the country. If I remember correctly, he was also the first Latino Attorney General, so they may have also been concerned for his safety because of that too.