Police officers from across Texas packed a hearing room Wednesday in Austin demonstrating their support for a bill that would eliminate temporary paper license plates.
, Scesney’s department has confiscated hundreds of fraudulent tags in recent months many of them replicas of the Department of Motor Vehicles' new paper tag format that was supposed to be harder to copy.
Among the group showing support were Grand Prairie officers who worked alongside Brandon Tsai, who died in November in a crash while pursuing a car with a fraudulent paper tag. Wednesday, Scensney and Rep. Craig Goldman from Fort Worth passed out fraudulent tags the Grand Prairie Police Department made with each of the House Transportation Committee members' names on them, trying to illustrate just how easily the new paper tags can be manipulated and reproduced.they were humbled by the number of officers who turned out to back their message.
"Very humbling. Very humbling. I mean, when we filed the bill in November, we heard from law enforcement all over this state," Goldman said.
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