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Rejected Vanity License Plates (Warning: Some Readers May Be Offended)

By Emily Merwin, and Stephanie Lamm
June 26, 2017

The items in this searchable database represent the 8,000-plus items that appeared on the list of banned vanity license plates that the Georgia Department of Revenue supplied to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution earlier this month following a request under the state's Open Records Act. Some instances of the letter zero may appear as the letter "O" in this list due to the limitations of optical character recognition software used to scan the documents, which were provided on paper only.

Read more about the list of banned vanity plates and some First Amendment experts' concerns about bans for "covfefe" on myajc.com.

About the Authors

Emily Merwin

Jennifer Peebles is a newsroom data specialist at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, helping reporters find and tell stories with government data (and sometimes documents, too).

Stephanie Lamm

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