{"id":552,"date":"2010-04-12T20:17:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2010-04-12T20:17:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:17:26","slug":"richmond-naughty-car-number-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/richmond-naughty-car-number-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Naughty Car Number Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>Members of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles&#8217; &#8220;Word  Committee&#8221; said they meet once a month to try to keep dirty words off car number plates.<\/p>\n<p>Committee members, all employees of the department, said they meet on  the second Tuesday of every month and scrutinize applications for  personalized license plates to make sure they do not contain concealed  profanity or references to drugs, alcohol, gangs or crime, The (Norfolk)  Virginian-Pilot reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Stokes, who sits on the committee and serves as the  department&#8217;s head of public relations, said a computer program weeds out  the obvious banned combinations of letters and numbers before the  committee, made up of people from all demographics, looks over those  still in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles&#8217; &#8220;Word Committee&#8221; said they meet once a month to try to keep dirty words off car number plates. 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