All Minnesota vanity plates under review after anti-Muslim plate issued
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety is reviewing all of the state's vanity license plates after an anti-Muslim plate was spotted in the St. Cloud area recently.
State officials revoked the plate and called it offensive after a picture was posted to social media. Gov. Mark Dayton said he was "appalled" the state issued it in the first place.
State law says vanity plates may not be of an obscene, indecent or immoral nature.
A spokesperson for the Department of Public Safety says the agency is combing through all of Minnesota's 98,564 personalized license plates to see if any others are in violation of the rules.
The department is also reviewing its process for approving personalized plates.
In the application for the plate, the driver listed "FMUSLMS" and two other choices, saying they were all "names of musical bands he is in," WCCO reported.
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