| It's not unusual to be in a situation where you | | | | online by registering at one of the tens of |
| need to look up license plates. A search like that is | | | | websites offering this service. These websites |
| required in case you need to find someone who | | | | require a certain registration fee which depends |
| might have committed a crime against you or | | | | on the period of time you have access for |
| caused an accident. Of course, there could be | | | | (typically for one year) and the number of |
| other reasons like if are interested in buying a | | | | searches you are allowed to make (could be |
| vehicle on which you saw a "For Sale" sign, but | | | | unlimited). |
| the only info you have about is the plate number. | | | | Looking up license plates over the Internet is |
| Not everyone is allowed to look up license plates, | | | | simple. After you register, you login at the |
| it depends on his purpose and what he is after.If | | | | website using the account information received |
| you are allowed to perform a license plate search, | | | | during the registration process and then provide |
| this procedure can supply you with information | | | | the license plate number, and as a result you |
| regarding the owner of the vehicle such as his full | | | | obtain the owner's name, address, phone number, |
| name and address. What you should know is that | | | | vehicle identification number and whether or not |
| civilians can't just run a license plate trace for free | | | | there are any liens on the vehicle. |
| or just do it whenever they wish. This is | | | | Besides doing it over the Internet, there is |
| confidential information, stored in a database at | | | | another way to lookup license plates and that is |
| Government-owned computers. It's not a public | | | | by hiring a personal investigator to do the job for |
| type information that anyone can access, in order | | | | you. This is by far the most expensive way, but |
| to protect the citizens and secure their privacy. | | | | it might be your only option left in case the |
| The Police Department and the state DMV are | | | | website search didn't provide the necessary |
| the only authorized institutions that can perform | | | | results. Such private investigators are officially |
| license plate searches. | | | | authorized to access resources and tools that the |
| However, things have changed a bit as the | | | | public sector does not, and in addition, they have |
| Internet really took off. Now, if you have | | | | specialized training. |
| legitimate reasons, you can lookup license plates | | | | |