These are the plates my wife and I have. I have the flag one she has the dog paw one. If you get the 3 number and 2 letter randomly picked by the state it is $5 extra on your registration every year. If you get them personalized it is $70 extra a year. My $5 goes to the Veteran’s employment program fund and the paw one has its $5 going to the Vets get pets cash fund.

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I would think anything that obstructs law enforcement from reading the plates would be illegal and getting a ticket. How do those devices avoid that?

flashguy

Last year Mississippi made Blackout vanity tags an option for an extra $53. This year a non vanity version blackout tag was added for $38. The majority of the extra funds go to a trust fund for families of fallen Police and Firefighters. The tag looks much better than the regular tag on my white and black truck, and I am good with the fund use. The first 6 months of availability raised over a million dollars for the fund.

Ohio used to have yellow plates for those convicted of DUI...not sure if they still do that or not.

Here in Indiana, we have so many plate options its ridiculous. It wouldn't bother me except that when we run them we have to provide the specific 2-character plate type code as well as the plate # and expiration year to get a return. It just adds unnecessary complexity and makes it a pain in the butt when some types are ambiguous or so uncommon as to be difficult to remember.

As a former DBA in the private sector, I don't understand why we can't just have the plate #s all be unique (which I think they already are) and key on that for the search to avoid having to provide all the extra info, but this is what you get when you have databases and tools designed by bureaucrats rather than actual professionals.

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Hell, I still miss the old days when the first two digits of the tag denoted which county it was from. That was cool. The biggest county by population got #01 and so on down the line to #95 for the smallest county. This was dropped in 1988.
Any other states that do this?

Alabama still has that option, and that is the plate that I continue to choose for my own vehicles.

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Great idea! Make it easy for the license plate readers/location trackers (it isn't just the cops that have these, although they probably have the best database).

I was thinking the same thing. With all the photo radar and photo red light cams around here, people are starting to put an opaque tinted cover over their plate to make it more difficult to even get a good photo of the plate.

Oh.. the ones that usually don’t work and gets you a ticket for obstructed plate?

Yep.

And I don’t really think any of the black plates have black lettering. Here in the Commonwealth, our black plates are “Friends of Coal” specialty plates with white lettering.

There was a time in Michigan when you got a different color plate every year. If I recall they went to a black out plate for quite a while with sticker tabs. Then they started doing different colors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...n_plates_of_Michigan

According to this Michigan had that (white letters on black) plate for passenger vehicles in: 21, 26, 49, 51, 53, 55, 79-82, 82, and 83

Not a new concept by any means.