content: Talked to a friend, he said head light out, expired tabs, not wearing seat belt is a vehicle violation. In every state police legally can run the plates  and the primary reason is to verify the car vin and plates check as in the video, He also said police can legally check said plates on suspicious Vehicles for example  cop see's a car change lanes without a blinker then follows it and it suddenly turns into a gas station. the cop can run the plates.  It's under the Fourth Amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”