Re: Scott, you got get on this program...

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/dmv-police-confidential-2011354-program-records

It's 1:45 p.m. on a Wednesday in February and a Toyota Camry is driving
west on the 91 Express Lanes, for free, for the 470th time.

I wonder if it also likes blocking the passing lane.

They've never received a violation notice in the mail, either. Their car
is registered as part of a state program which hides their home address
on Department of Motor Vehicles records.

The cheap version is usually fake tags.

Vehicles with protected license plates can run through dozens of
intersections controlled by red light cameras and breeze along the 91
toll lanes with impunity.

They can ignore the red lights until they're hit by someone who doesn't slam on the brakes for slowpokes that drift slowly through intersections against a stop.

Some patrol officers let drivers with protected plates off with a
warning because the plates signal that the drivers are "one of their
own" or related to someone who is.

That's ridiculous. Tags are too easy to steal. I'm only interested in who's actually driving and what that person is doing now. I don't care what the tag says in some database. There's too much reliance on database retrieval instead of using the obvious feedback from the immediate situation.

"I would highly doubt that anybody is registering their vehicles on a
confidential basis to do anything but protect themselves," Garden Grove
Police Capt. Mike Handfield said. "I just don't think people are
thinking they're getting away with anything..Is the value of having a
confidential plate and protecting the law enforcement community from
people who might hurt them, is that worth that risk? I believe it is."

The most likely method of finding a person is stalking, not breaking into a tag database and using a street map. This "hidden tag" system does not appear to provide any legitimate security.
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