How to do a background check on someone with only their license plate number?

self ^ | 10/20/2020 | Self

[know.your.why]

I want to investigate if a suspicious looking car/driver thats making me nervous is really as dangerous as they look. Nothing like stalking...I'm elderly and have reason to be leary of potential problems and this one smells funny.

[know.your.why]

I want to investigate if a suspicious looking car/driver thats making me nervous is really as dangerous as they look. Nothing like stalking...I'm elderly and have reason to be leary of potential problems and this one smells funny.

[Persevero]

All I can think of is hiring a private detective to do some digging. Afaik that is legal but I don’t know what it might cost.

[Jonny7797]

Call the police. That is all.

[Dutch Boy]

A private investigator could do it. I had a neighbor that was a PI many years ago. He would be hired to investigate a lot of things.

[tuffydoodle]

www.publicdata.com but you have to pay for it. It’s not expensive.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Put a questionnaire on his windshield.

[JohnBrowdie]

call the cops.

[Salvavida]

Former PI. You can’t do it. Only law enforcement can, which is why community policing is important: you’d have the phone number of the officer assigned to your area.

So contact the police and have a report filed, then ask for an officer to visit you.

[tuffydoodle]

As an amendment to my last comment, publicdata works the best in Texas, in other states, not so much.

[fireman15]

When I used to work at a 911 dispatch center we could get that type of info, but we were not allowed to pass it on. That was a long time ago. These days there are all sorts of commercial sites selling this type of info. Here the first links that comes up on a DuckDuckGo.com search:

https://www.carhistory.online/plate.php?msclkid=258e362110bd157f8fc869ae16ee6e62&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=CarHistory.online%20%7C%20License%20Plate%20-%20Farm%20%5BLicense%20Plate%20Test%5D&utm_term=how%20to%20find%20license%20plate%20number&utm_content=How%20To%20Find%20License%20Plate%20Number

[9YearLurker]

Great post. Thanks.

[tuffydoodle]

“You can’t do it.”

Not true. You can look up license plates on publicdata.com

[alexander_busek]

Just do what "Jim Rockford" or "Barnaby Jones" did all the time: Call up your "friend on the Force" and ask him!

Regards,

[tuffydoodle]

You can look up plates in Texas on publicdata.com.

[Salvavida]

That didn't used to be public data. Lexus Nexus didn't even have it. Wow. It is being contested, here is a good blog:

https://www.motorists.org/blog/license-plate-numbers-personal-data/

[Gay State Conservative]

Police

[ammomajor]

Talk to your local sheriff. Cannot hurt to have official recognition.

[Rio]

You could try this site:

https://recordsfinder.com/plate/?campaign=recordsfindercom_license_plate&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=license%20plate%20lookup_e&msclkid=64ce4d1a9b571149fe4c1295914c1d69

[wally_bert]

I’ve got Dennis Becker’s or John Biddle’s numbers around somewhere.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Alright, all you knuckleheads - did most of you even bother to look at the image he linked to? I didn’t think so.