Motel 6 settles suit over sharing of info

The national budget chain Motel 6 has agreed to pay up to $7.6 million to Latino guests who say the company’s employees shared their private information with immigration officials, according to a proposed settlement filed in federal court.

A federal judge must still approve the proposal filed last week in U.S. District Court in Arizona.

The agreement between Motel 6, which is owned by G6 Hospitality in Carrollton, and guests represented by the Los Angelesbased Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund springs from a class-action lawsuit filed in January.

Calls seeking comment from the hospitality company’s media relations department were not immediately returned Wednesday. Motel 6 in the past has declined to comment on the lawsuit but has said it takes its guests’ privacy seriously.