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TexasTowelie

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Mon Feb 8, 2021, 01:31 AM Feb 2021

Alaska plans screening changes after '3REICH' license plate

An Alaska agency plans to update its electronic screening system after issuing personalized license plates reading “FUHRER” and “3REICH” and later recalling them because of complaints, officials announced last Friday.

A review by the state Department of Administration found that the same person owned both plates at different times. The “FUHRER” plate was issued over a decade ago and the department’s Division of Motor Vehicles had little information on how requests for personalized plates were processed back then, according to the report by department Deputy Commissioner Paula Vrana. It says the division recalled the plate in October after a complaint.

Application for the”3REICH” plate was made in October, but the term was not flagged because it wasn’t on a list of more than 11,000 “vulgar, violent, criminal and demeaning terms” used by an electronic system to screen plate requests, the report says. Flagged requests receive closer scrutiny, but when “included among several hundred other unflagged” items, “3REICH” was inadvertently overlooked for additional review by an employee going through applications, the report says.

The plate was issued in November and recalled Jan. 21 after a “report of concern” was received, according to the report.

Read more: https://www.homernews.com/news/alaska-plans-screening-changes-after-3reich-license-plate/

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Alaska plans screening changes after '3REICH' license plate (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2021 OP
A smarter Nazi would have gone for 4REICH... dchill Feb 2021 #1

dchill

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1. A smarter Nazi would have gone for 4REICH...
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 01:34 AM
Feb 2021

...The Third ended rather badly like 75 years ago. Just sayin'.

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