The nation’s highest court has made it clear: The state is in control of what your license tag says, even if you are the one paying the extra cost for a special or personalized plate. In North ...

Maryland’s Motor Vehicle Administration rejected over 3,700 custom tags in 2025. In D.C., the list of rejected license plates was much shorter.

If you’ve ever noticed a custom license plate while driving in Washington state, you might have felt inspired. Seeing a particularly creative plate can leave you itching to order your own. Washington ...

PennDOT denied thousands of personalized license plates in 2025, many of which included expletives, sexual innuendos or ...

More than 2,000 vanity plate requests were rejected in New York last year. Here’s what the DMV allows — and what crosses the ...

Don’t let those Midwestern manners fool you: Some Illinoisans have a dirty mind, the vanity plates rejected by the secretary of state’s office over the last year show. Nearly 400 customized license ...