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An unidentified technology outage resulted in the closure of Texas driver’s license offices across the state Monday. Offices were back open Thursday morning.

The Texas Department of Public Safety announced in a social media post that the outage forced the agency to close all driver’s license offices on Monday afternoon. Staff was working with customers to reschedule appointments, the department said. The statewide law enforcement and driver’s license administration agency’s website was also down Monday evening.

Driver licenses offices were also closed on Tuesday and Wednesday for the New Year’s holiday. Agency officials did not respond to inquiries about the cause of the temporary outage.

The outage appeared to be isolated to only the public safety department. The health and education department’s websites were working. As was the governor’s and Legislature’s.

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