Head of Texas DMV resigns amid pressure to stop widespread sale of fake paper license plates

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by Reese Oxner, Texas Tribune


The head of Texas Department of Motor Vehicles has resigned amid pressure on the agency to address security vulnerabilities that have allowed criminals to create and sell hundreds of thousands of fake paper license plates.

Whitney Brewster announced her resignation Monday but did not directly address the issue surrounding the sale of fake license plates.

“I understand the frustrations of our stakeholders to the problems and evolving situations we are working daily to resolve,” Brewster said in a statement Monday. “Often the hardest thing to do as a public servant leader is to step back and accept that you have done everything you can, and that it might be time to allow new leadership to take the reins.”

TV news station NBC 5, based in North Texas, aired an investigation in November on how criminals have exploited loopholes in the state’s system to create a $200 million enterprise selling illegitimate paper license plates across the country.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/08/texas-dmv-fake-license-plates/