California rejected more than 12,000 custom license plates between summer 2024 and 2025. Image courtesy of California Department of Motor Vehicles If you’ve traveled on California roads, you’ve likely ...

Illinois drivers got creative when it came to their license plate requests in 2025, but not enough to get past the Illinois Secretary of State’s office. Revealing the list of rejected license plates ...

Q. I recently discovered when I went to AAA to renew my registration that my personalized license-plate number was incorrectly made/recorded some 20-plus years ago. When I originally got the plate, I ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court won’t get involved in states’ regulation of vanity license plates, rejecting an appeal from a Tennessee woman challenging the rejection of her controversial '69PWNDU’ ...

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The Massachusetts 250 plate, a blue plate featuring the year “1776” and the number “250,” only became available in May of 2025 yet, as of Nov. 7, has 31,526 active registrations. This puts it just ...

A new Florida law increases penalties for anything that obstructs a license plate. Florida officials clarified that frames are permissible as long as the plate number and decal are visible. Covering ...

A new Florida law makes it illegal to obstruct any part of a license plate, including numbers and registration stickers. The law targets tinted covers and devices designed to hide plates from law ...

If you've traveled on California roads, you've likely noticed more than one clever custom license plate. For every fun license plate you've come across, there are countless others that were rejected ...