Yes, Puerto Rican licenses are valid in the U.S., Hertz reminds its employees – NPR

Hertz has apologized and rewritten company policy after a Puerto Rican man was denied a rental car despite showing his valid U.S. driver’s license. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Hertz has apologized and rewritten company policy after a Puerto Rican man was denied a rental car despite showing his valid U.S. driver’s license. Scott Olson/Getty Images Hertz has clarified to its employees that Puerto Rican driver’s licenses are valid forms of identification for customers, following an incident in which agents of the rental car company called the police on a Puerto Rican man after demanding he show his passport in order to pick up a car. Both Hertz and a local Louisiana police department apologized to the man, Puerto Rico resident Humberto Marchand. The incident was previously reported on by CBS News. Afterward, Puerto Rico’s representative in Congress, Jenniffer González-Colón, wrote a letter to the company’s CEO urging Hertz to implement a companywide “educational campaign” for its employees. “It is unacceptable that, more than 100 years after having obtained US citizenship, Puerto Ricans are still being discriminated against and treated like second-class American citizens,” González-Colón wrote. In a response dated Tuesday, Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr
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