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Q:<\/strong> Do the cameras used by toll roads or express lanes, such as those on the 405 Express Lanes, have the capability to identify vehicles with expired registration tags and issue citations accordingly?<\/p>\n

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\u2013 Wayne Li, Rancho Palos Verdes<\/em><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong> Yes, and no.<\/p>\n

Cameras along the 405 Express Lanes in Orange County snag photos of vehicles\u2019 license plates. That way, the ones without required transponders can be charged a toll if they have an account \u2014 and charged and possibly fined if they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get a shot of the license plate \u2026 you can see if the tag is current,\u201d said Joel Zlotnik<\/strong>, a spokesman for the Orange County Transportation Authority, which manages the 405 and 91 express lanes in O.C.<\/p>\n

\u201c(But) we do not \u2014 nor do we have any authority \u2014 to share this information,\u201d he added. \u201cThere\u2019s no mechanism even to share (it).\u201d<\/p>\n

The state has privacy laws on what cannot be shared, he said.<\/p>\n

Honk also checked in with the Transportation Corridor Agencies, which operates the 73, 133, 241 and 261 toll roads in Orange County.<\/p>\n

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TCA \u201cuses automated-license-plate recognition solely to identify vehicles for the purpose of toll collection and to verify accounts,\u201d spokeswoman Michelle<\/strong>\u00a0Kennedy<\/strong> told Honk in an email.<\/p>\n

California Highway Patrol officers are assigned to the Express Lanes and those toll roads and can certainly see expired tags and choose to pull over offenders.<\/p>\n

But tollway cameras aren\u2019t there to help nab registration scofflaws: \u201cTolling agencies (in California) don\u2019t have that authority,\u201d Zlotnik said.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> I spotted this tag on a California license\u00a0plate recently. What gives? Is this for car-rental agencies or maybe\u00a0companies who have a large fleet of vehicles?<\/p>\n

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\u2013 Scott Robertson, Long Beach<\/em><\/p>\n

A: <\/strong>Good thinking, Scott.<\/p>\n

Scott sent along a photo with a sticker that goes where the registration tag goes \u2014 in fact, that is what it is.<\/p>\n

This one is white with black lettering saying, \u201cCalifornia Permanent Fleet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Owners with at least 25 vehicles can get the special stickers and skip adhering registration tags on the plates each year, as the rest of us have to. The owner pays the same annual amount, with $1 added on each vehicle for processing.<\/p>\n

Police officers can run the plates to ensure the registration is current, with the Department of Motor Vehicles sending out notices reminding the owners when payments are due.<\/p>\n

The California program has been around since 1979.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of April 20, 2026, there are 513,508 vehicles registered in the program,\u201d Ronald Ongtoaboc<\/strong>, a DMV spokesperson, told Honk in an email.<\/p>\n

HONKIN\u2019 FACT:<\/strong> One of many replicas of the car that starred in the 1980s TV series \u201cKnight Rider,\u201d which sits idle in the Volo Museum in Illinois, recently got a $50 speeding ticket from New York City. Another black Pontiac Trans Am, also with a \u201cKNIGHT\u201d license plate, was doing 36 in a 25 mph zone in Brooklyn; a photo of the suspect car caught by the speed camera came with the ticket.<\/p>\n

The museum\u2019s car isn\u2019t even registered and has only a novelty license plate of the one used on the show. Museum officials had no idea how they got tapped \u2014 but they did find it all amusing and requested a hearing to challenge the citation. (Source: The Associated Press.)<\/p>\n

To ask Honk questions, reach him at honk@ocregister.com. He only answers those that are published. To see Honk online: ocregister.com\/tag\/honk. Twitter: @OCRegisterHonk<\/p>\n

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