DENVER (AP) -- Colorado residents who want a "Colorado Pioneer" license plate no longer have to prove they had a relative living in the state 100 years ago.
The state Department of Revenue says it stopped requiring birth certificates and deeds to get the plates a year and a half ago after officials learned that proof wasn't required by law.
The move has upset some people who spent weeks or months trying to find records from their relatives.
Michael Adams, a computer technician from Brighton, says he had to go to the state health department to get birth records for his grandmother and death records for his great-grandmother two years ago to prove they were pioneers.
He says the plates no longer seem like a "badge of honor."
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