Berkeley subcommittee recommends wider use of dealer license plates A subcommittee of the Commission on Civic Privacy has recommended that the practice of displaying easily readable license plates should be discouraged on Berkeley city streets. City staff were the first to try out the new city of Berkeley “dealer plates” to protect their privacy. Photo: Citizen reporter A subcommittee of the Berkeley Commission on Civic Privacy has recommended that the practice of displaying easily readable license plates should be discouraged on Berkeley city streets. “We need to re-evaluate how we display and archive information that can be used to track personal movements that should remain private,” Kay Serra, the subcommittee chair, stated in a public workshop conducted via zoom on Wednesday evening.