OAKLAND, California -- Vanity plates in California may soon start to look a bit more creative. A U.S. District Court ruling has struck down a California DMV standard that allowed the department to ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Your personalized license plate is a form of “government speech” and therefore can be censored, according to a 3-judge panel of the Tennessee Supreme Court. In late February, ...

They were all rejected as Indiana license plate numbers over the past year. The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles released its ...

The Illinois Secretary of State’s Office reveals some of the vanity and personalized license plate requests that made the “naughty list” in 2025.

BISMARCK — One of the first requests for a personalized license plate that came across Lindi Michlitsch's desk at North Dakota's Motor Vehicle Division read "BAMF." The applicant claimed the four ...

Arkansas' Office of Motor Vehicles issued 4,371 personalized license plates last year. Another 617 were automatically rejected. They were on the DMV's "banned list" or were a duplication of an ...

Illinois rejected more than 550 vanity plate requests in 2025 for being offensive or hard to read. See what made the banned list.