Airports, especially those with 121 service, have had similar policies for YEARS.
LEX is notoriously a PITA; when instructing there moons ago I let a renter out to a plane whose SIDA badge (good only for GA side, just like mine) had expired while he was on a year-long vacation to Afghanistan. Airport cops revoked my ID and made me sit through the whole badging process again with a warning a second violation would see it permanently revoked.
All for serving a paying client and having the audacity to not escort him 30 yards to a Cessna 152. Funny thing is a customer with no ID would have been fine, but expired ID was no bueno...