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Professor Barry McDonald Interviewed on the First Amendment and Personalized License Plates -- NPR Radio

April 11, 2019 | Professor Barry P. McDonald was interviewed regarding the First Amendment on the KPCC Airtalk with Larry Mantle program, "Does the DMV have the Right to Reject Vanity Plates?"

Via KPCC Radio:


Whether your vanity plate gets approval is up to four bureaucrats in the California Department of Motor Vehicles, who sort through thousands of personalized plate requests to weed out those that imply "connotations offensive to good taste and decency," according to DMV policy.

But do they have the legal right to reject personalized plates based on content?


The program may be found here