#HERTZ RECEIPTS LICENSE#

In March 2019, KATV reported that a man from Searcy had filed suit against the company after it falsely reported that a rental car had been stolen. This appears to be a long-running problem for the rental agency. The company is still sending out hotlists to law enforcement, misinforming armed officers that legally-rented vehicles are actually stolen. As it emerges from bankruptcy, it is facing lawsuits over its potentially deadly mistakes. Hertz is apparently still trying to get people killed. And that proliferation comes with a cost: the potential killing of innocent people because law enforcement has been misinformed about the status of a rented car.

#HERTZ RECEIPTS LICENSE#

The proliferation of automatic license plate readers means these stops will only become more frequent as time goes on, as hotlists hit cameras capable of collecting millions of plate/location records a year. The company is apparently pretty lax when it comes to record-keeping, which has resulted in people being accosted - often at gunpoint - by police officers who’ve been (wrongly) informed the rental car they’ve pulled over is stolen. Hertz apologized for spending more than 1,000 days “searching” for the rental records, but that apology doesn’t put years back on Alford’s life, a half-decade of which he lost to the penal system for a crime he didn’t commit. All told, Alford spent five years in jail on the bogus charge. He requested this exculpatory evidence from Hertz, but it took the company three years to locate the receipts that proved his innocence. When the murder occurred, Herbert Alford was twenty minutes away from the scene of the crime, renting a car from Hertz. Earlier this year, a man, wrongfully arrested and imprisoned for murder, was finally able to prove his innocence by producing rental car receipts showing he could not have possibly committed the crime.

Hertz receipts