Ohio may still be a swing state in one sense: on its citizens' bawdy license plates. President Donald Trump was a frequent target of Ohioans trying to sneak vanity license plates past the minders at ...
Unsurprisingly, Ohioans were still persistently trying to bypass the BMV's profanity filters in 2025. Driving the news: Every January, it's local tradition to review our favorite public record — the ...
Some of the requests were outright hilarious, others not so much. Ohio BMV rejected 891 vanity plate requests in 2025 for various reasons. Rejected plates included drug references, sexual innuendos, ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — If you want a custom license plate in Ohio, you have to get it approved by the BMV. It’s an NBC4 Investigates tradition: digging into the hundreds of custom license plate ...