COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — If you want a custom license plate in Ohio, you have to get it approved by the BMV.
It’s an NBC4 Investigates tradition: digging into the hundreds of custom license plate requests that were rejected. More than 900 license plates were rejected in 2025: hundreds of applications filled with profanity, some clever, some not so much.
Curses, sex jokes, you name it, it was rejected by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles in 2025…