Hertz Corp., battling hundreds of customers who say they were falsely arrested for auto theft after renting cars, was ordered by a federal judge to disclose how many renters it accuses every year. Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath sided with advocates for 220 people suing Hertz who argued more details about Hertz’s internal anti-theft program should be public. In various documents filed in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, the car renter has demanded that data on how many theft reports it files every year be blocked out of court papers to prevent rivals from using the information to tarnish Hertz’s reputation. The U.S. Trustee, CBS News, and advocates for people suing Hertz for false arrest argued that the information should be made public. Court documents show that some of the customers who rented cars were jailed and in at least one case held at gunpoint just hours after paying for a rental.
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