Texas officials replaced temporary paper license plates with permanent metal ones in an effort to curb widespread fraud, but law enforcement now says criminals have adapted quickly, making the ...
Texas officials are continuing to confront widespread use of fraudulent license plates months after the state eliminated paper temporary tags, a move intended to curb abuse that had made Texas a ...
Nearly 2,000 vanity license plate applications were denied in 2025 at the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. Ranging from dirty jokes, aggressive driving tactics, hot takes and thinly-veiled curse ...
Texas set out to solve its fake license plate problem by banning temporary paper tags. The logic was simple: remove the easiest thing to counterfeit, and fraud would dry up. Instead, the opposite ...
Each year, thousands of Texans apply for a personalized license plate from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. And while many of the requested tag numbers are benign, hundreds are rejected each ...
One of the nearly 2,000 license plates rejected by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles in 2025. (Gage Goulding, Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights ...