After a controversy over a pair of Nazi-referencing vanity license plates, the Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles is reviewing more than 15 years of personalized plates for offensive messages, the Alaska Department of Administration said Tuesday.
“Following the outcome of the review I ordered of Alaska’s personalized plate program at the DMV, the DMV began the long process of reviewing tens of thousands of personalized license plates that have been issued by the State going back as far as the Murkowski administration,” department commissioner Kelly Tshibaka wrote.
Frank Murkowski was Governor of Alaska between 2002-2006.
Meanwhile, more Alaskans have contacted the state with questionable plates, “some of which were issued a decade or more ago,” Tshibaka wrote.
An initial investigation into how license plates “FUHRER” and “3REICH” were issued found that the plates slipped through the department’s automated system, which is supposed to screen for 11,000 violent, criminal, demeaning or vulgar terms.
“Alaskans can rest assured that we will find and revoke any plates that violate the rules of Alaska’s personalized license plate program,” she wrote.
[From 2017: Here are all the personalized license plates the Alaska DMV rejected for being offensive]