ByLawmakers are urging Governor Newsom to sign a bill that would allow rental car companies to use GPS technology sooner to find stolen rental cars.
When a rental car isn't returned on time, as California state law stands today, companies are required to wait 72 hours to use GPS to find it.Haney authored a bill that would shorten the window down to 24 hours instead."Many of these rental cars, when they're stolen, are actually used in other crimes," he said. "Someone doesn't want to use their own car in a crime because it can be traced so they take a rental car, they steal it and they go commit other crimes.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins says those stolen rental cars are frequently used to commit other crimes like organized retail theft. "This information officers will be using to immediately apprehend suspects," Derrick Jackson, the acting San Francisco Deputy Police Chief said.