AUSTIN, Texas — The days of Texas using paper license plates are numbered. A new law aimed at doing away with temporary paper ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Law enforcement agencies across Southern California violated state law more than 100 times last month by sharing information from automated license plate readers with federal agents, ...

Under a 10-year-old California measure, known as Senate Bill 34, state law enforcement agencies are barred from sharing license plate reader data with out-of-state public agencies or federal entities.

Starting in 2026, California will switch to a mirrored format: three numbers, three letters, and a final number. For example, a license plate could read "000AAA1." ...

So 999ZZZ9 will be the last license plate sequence in the next combination. This sequence doesn't impact custom license plates that don't follow any combination rules, but must be approved by the DMV.

It’s official: California’s love affair with cars is so intense, we’re about to literally run out of license plate numbers. After nearly 45 years of the trusty old format—one number, three ...

In its current form, California's license plate number recipe has been #XXX### for nearly 45 years, starting at license plate number 1AAA000 in 1980. According to a San Francisco Chronicle article ...

Some lucky California driver will soon receive a license plate with the number 9ZZZ999, marking the end of an era for Golden State motorists. The California Department of Motor Vehicles projects ...

The California Department of Motor Vehicles is quickly running out of numbers that follow its current license plate format. A DMV spokesperson told LAist the department expects to exhaust this ...

The agency is currently processing license plates in the 9UBA000-9UBZ999 range, according to the DMV. Once the state runs out of that license plate sequence, the next sequence will be three ...

California is expected to run out of license plate numbers next year, according to the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). This has prompted the department to prepare the launch of a new ...