May 5, 2021
This photo provided by the Ocean City Fire Department shows the wreckage from a car accident on the Route 90 bridge in Ocean City, Md., on Sunday, May 2, 2021. A bystander jumped over a highway guard rail and into a Maryland bay Sunday to rescue a child who had been thrown from a car and into the water during the crash, according to authorities. The child was ejected from a car on the Route 90 bridge in Ocean City and landed in the Assawoman Bay, the Ocean City Fire Department said in a statement. At least eight people were injured in total, the agency said. (Ocean City Fire Department via AP)
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In 2019, Derek Volk took a photo of the license plate on the vehicle in front of him, showing an expletive (we have blacked out the first word). How did the state allow this on a license plate and who would put this on their car? he wrote on a public Facebook post. Photo courtesy Derek Volk
Legislators are pushing for new prohibitions on obscene or objectionable vanity license plates and want to give the secretary of state the power to recall a growing number of such license plates that already are in use.
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows testified in support of the measures at a public hearing Tuesday, and said some tweaks may be necessary to prevent a successful court challenge under the First Amendment.
May 5, 2021 | 10:20 AM
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Based on crude license plate messages, one may be forgiven for assuming Maine doesn’t give two flips about obscenities.
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows wants to change that.
Bellows, a former director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, testified Tuesday in support of several bills to rein in the wild west that ensued when the state ended the vetting process for license plates in 2015.
From Fort Kent to Kittery, there are now all matter of obscenities including straight-up f-bombs and references to anatomy and sex acts adorning license plates issued for cars and trucks.
Published May 04. 2021 10:14PM
By DAVID SHARP, Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Based on crude license plate messages, one may be forgiven for assuming Maine doesn’t give two flips about obscenities.
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows wants to change that.
Bellows, a former director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, testified Tuesday in support of several bills to rein in the wild west that ensued when the state ended the vetting process for license plates in 2015.
From Fort Kent to Kittery, there are now all matter of obscenities including straight-up f-bombs and references to anatomy and sex acts adorning license plates issued for cars and trucks.