INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ A state lawyer says Indiana's Bureau of Motor Vehicles has the right to reject offensive messages sought on personalized license plates because every license plate has some government speech on it.

Solicitor General Thomas Fisher appeared before the state Supreme Court Thursday in a lawsuit filed by Greenfield police Officer Rodney Vawter over the BMV's denial of his request for a vanity plate saying “0INK.”

After Marion County judge against the agency, the BMV suspended the state's personalized license plate program.

The ACLU of Indiana is representing Vawter and says the BMV made an arbitrary decision that violated the officer's free speech rights. 

ACLU attorney Ken Falk says the agency has approved other questionable plates.

There's no schedule for a ruling from the Supreme Court.