Register your vehicle: Denverites with expired plates may face $95 fine soon

DENVER (KDVR) — Is your vehicle registration up to date? If not, you may want to get that done or reconsider driving in Denver, because police will start a month-long enforcement campaign on Saturday, Nov. 2.

The Denver Police Department will conduct a targeted enforcement campaign throughout the month of November and will pull over drivers who have expired license plates or expired temporary plate violations.

If this feels like deja vu, you likely aren't alone. This isn't the first time this year that DPD has temporarily waived its low-level traffic stop policy to conduct license plate violation enforcement, having done so for 30 days in July in August and for a week in September.

Mayor Mike Johnston recently revealed in an "ask me anything" session on Reddit that the city has a new strategy to ensure people who may struggle with paying registration fees have moments of "amnesty."

"We give three or four weeks to encourage people to all get their plates renewed and then we do phases of enforcement," he said, "where we follow up with a few weeks of rigorous enforcement."

Johnston claimed the most recent enforcement period in September worked out well, increasing the number of people who updated their registration by 30%.

People who are caught with out-of-date registration may face a fine of up to $95 per violation on top of registration and renewal costs.