San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said online retailers will stop or restrict the sale of illegal license plate covers after he sent a cease-and-desist letter to four major companies last year. 

Chiu announced Monday that Amazon, eBay, Etsy and Walmart all worked with his office to remove the covers from their platforms or added geographic filters to their sites to prevent them from being sold in California. 

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.