


In a few cases the reason code is some other character or word besides Y or N, possibly a typo.A reviewer comment of "No micro" indicates that a paper application was submitted but was unavailable in the DMV's imaging system.Some records are missing reason codes, customer meanings, reviewer comments, and/or statuses.In plate combinations, a # character indicates a hand symbol, a $ character indicates the heart symbol, a + character indicates the plus symbol, and a & character indicates the star symbol.I received the files as a consolation prize in response to my own related records request, which I was told would cost $2,000 to fulfill otherwise. This data was parsed from a set of 458 Excel workbooks that the DMV prepared for someone else's public records request. status: Y means the plate was approved, N means it was denied.reviewer_comments: Comments from DMV reviewers.customer_meaning: Meaning of the plate provided by the applicant.review_reason_code: Reason code for the application being reviewed (see below for codes).plate: the personalized license plate combination requested.These do NOT represent all applications received by the DMV during that timeframe, only applications that were flagged for additional review by the Review Committee. Warning: this dataset contains vulgar and offensive language (quite a lot of it).Īpplications.csv is a CSV of 23,463 personalized license plate applications the California DMV received from 2015-2016.
