Indiana: Denied Personalized License Plates
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| Submitted | March 1, 2022 |
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From: Adam Steinbaugh
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Indiana Access to Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
With respect to motor vehicle license plates:
1. If one is kept, a copy of the current list of prohibited or automatically denied vanity or personalized license plates.
2. A copy of any list of requested vanity or personalized plates denied in 2021 or 2022.
3. Any correspondence sent to any person whose vanity or personalized plates were denied. This request is limited to correspondence sent after January 1, 2022.
4. If a system is maintained for soliciting or receiving complaints concerning vanity or personalized license plates, a copy of any complaint received in 2021 or 2022.
5. If any vanity or personalized license plates have been revoked since January 1, 2021, any records related to the revocation.
6. A copy of any statute or regulations concerning what combinations of vanity or personalized license plates are permitted or prohibited.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 7 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Adam Steinbaugh
From: Indiana Bureau Of Motor Vehicles
Dear Adam Steinbaugh:
The BMV received your request for public records dated March 1, 2022 on March 15, 2022. The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles ("BMV") is working to determine the records and information that can properly be released to you. We anticipate that we will be required to redact, withhold, or otherwise be unable to provide certain information per the Driver's Privacy Protection Act (Ind. Code § 9-14-3.5) and Ind. Code § 5-14-3. Please also be advised that the BMV is not required to create new records in order to respond to a request. Please consider this response as acknowledgement of your request within seven days of receipt, as required by statute.
Sincerely,
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Kyle G. Bonick
Deputy General Counsel
100 N Senate Avenue, Room N404, Indianapolis, IN 46204
O (317) 233-1663 | F 317-233-3135 | E kbonick@bmv.in.gov<mailto:kbonick@bmv.in.gov>
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From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Indiana Access to Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 1, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Indiana Bureau Of Motor Vehicles
Please find BMV’s responses to your APRA request attached.
Best,
Kyle G. Bonick
Deputy General Counsel
Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Statement of Confidentiality: The information in this message is privileged and confidential and it is intended only for the use of the above named individual or entity. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are prohibited from disseminating, distributing, or copying the information contained in this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of the original message
From: Adam Steinbaugh
Hello --
Thank you for providing this response.
I'm following up with respect to category number 3, as I'm looking for correspondence relating to specific plates that were denied.
However, instead of seeking the correspondence with respect to *all* of the denied plates, could you provide correspondence relating to the following denied plates?:
yoda666
S8N666
boom666
f mpg
LEZBEAN
FYOU EPA
4SATAN
way2gay
notcia
fk cancr
F CNCR
FCANCR
hail ya
no joe
45 POTUS
Thank you!
Adam Steinbaugh
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Indiana Access to Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 1, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Indiana Bureau Of Motor Vehicles
Please find attached BMV’s response to your most recent APRA request.
Best,
Kyle G. Bonick
Deputy General Counsel
Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Statement of Confidentiality: The information in this message is privileged and confidential and it is intended only for the use of the above named individual or entity. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are prohibited from disseminating, distributing, or copying the information contained in this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of the original message
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