[one_half][dropcap style=”font-size: 60px; color: #9b9b9b;”] I [/dropcap]t seems that a police officer in Indiana has created quite the stink.
A lawsuit filed against the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, which handles the state’s vanity license plate program, has halted the issuance of new personalized license plates.
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[box type=”shadow”] The lawsuit that prompted the BMV to park the vanity plate program was filed in Marion County Superior Court in May by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana on behalf of a Greenfield policeman, Rodney Vawter.
For three years, Vawter had a license plate that read “0INK” — with a zero in place of the O — but when he tried to renew it in March, it was rejected.
The lawsuit says Vawter considers the plate’s verbal pig snort “an ironic statement of pride in his profession.” [/box]
According to the report, “The BMV this year told Vawter the plate was inappropriate, and cited a state statute that allows the BMV to refuse to issue a plate that officials believe carries ‘a connotation offensive to good taste and decency’ or ‘would be misleading.'”.