Alaska is set to update its electronic screening system for license plates after issuing personalized plates that read ‘FUHRER’ and ‘3REICH’, which are obvious Nazi references.

It is understood that the ‘FUHRER’ plate was issued over a decade ago before being recalled in October 2020 following a complaint. The same person who had the ‘FUHRER’ plate then made an application for ‘3REICH’ in the same month. It was approved and has since been spotted affixed to a Hummer H2 SUT (aka pickup truck).

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A review by the state Department of Administration says that the term used by this latest vanity plate wasn’t flagged because it was not on a list of more than 11,000 “vulgar, violent, criminal and demeaning terms” that’s used by an electronic system scanning plate requests. Anchorage Daily News reports that the ‘3REICH’ plate was recalled on January 21 after a complaint.

Controversy regarding the two plates quickly swirled in Alaska after Anchorage Assembly member Jamie Allard appeared to defend the use of the words.

“If you speak the language fluently, you would know that the English definition of the word, the progressives have put a spin on it and created their own definition,” Allard wrote on social media.

Shortly after making these comments, Allard was removed from the Alaska Human Rights Commission.

It’s not just Alaska where motorists are encountering issues with certain vanity plates, Car and Driver reports. In Idaho, the state DMV recently rejected applications for DOODIE, P00PS, POOPS, P0OPS, and PO0PS.

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