Why do we not do counties on vehicle tags in Maryland/Virginia? Or Wards on tags for D.C.?

[Anonymous]

Curious if there is a reason why States choose to display the county on tags.

Would you want that? What are the reasons against it?

[Anonymous]

In Florida you definitely don't want counties on your tags. We have an option to select counties.

If you are from a rural county and have a county tag and driving in Miami-Dade county you can be targeted for theft.

It is safer to have a tag that says "sunshine state" vs listing your county.

[Anonymous]

The vehicle is registered with the state not the county.

[Anonymous]

For illegal dirt bikes and quads all over Ward 8, would they want identifying stickers for their non-existent tags?

[Anonymous]

We are Florida residents of a very red county who lived in NoVa for long time (military) and chose the Sunshine State license plate specifically so we wouldn't be targeted by liberals (which we are, so no flames).

[Anonymous]

It would be another workload for DMV employees and cost money to make the stickers. If people moved across counties or wards they'd have to take the time to re-register. I don't see any value in it, so it's not worth the cost to do it.

[Anonymous]

Why should they? What is the benefit of this? I can only see downsides - another layer of bureaucracy, another reason to have to update/change registration, targeting by cops if you're driving further afield, random drivers having more information about you than they need for any reason.

Is it just driven by Ward/County pride? Get a bumper sticker.

[Anonymous]

I'm from a state that doesn't do counties on tags. I prefer it. I can go anywhere in my state and in neighboring states and people can't make assumptions.

I've only lived in one state that did this, when I lived in Nashville. I didn't like it. And Nashville has a funny boundary that even some county clerk people are unaware of so some people who actually live in Davidson county get Williamson on their tags. So what's the point?

[Anonymous]

I always assumed this was just a thing southern states do to enable corrupt/racist enforcement patterns. Is that not what it’s for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always assumed this was just a thing southern states do to enable corrupt/racist enforcement patterns. Is that not what it’s for?

Iowa has it.

[Anonymous]

What would the point of this be? Plus, you'd then have to get new tags if you moved from one ward in D.C. to another (or one Maryland county to another), which seems annoying.

[Anonymous]

Putting any sort of identifying information on your vehicle is dumb. It just gives road rage a-holes a chance to identify you in the future. Or makes your car a target for thieves if they think you might have valuables (looking at you idiots with NRA and 2A stickers on your trucks). Or, sometimes, it's not in your interest to be identified.