The Region - News from May 8, 1987

Los Angeles County supervisors were ordered to show cause why they had not acted unconstitutionally in blocking a $20,000 federally financed grant to the Minority AIDS Project to conduct educational programs in the black and Latino communities. Superior Court Judge Ricardo A. Torres made it clear that he agrees with American Civil Liberties Union attorneys that the supervisors “abused their discretion” when on a 2-2 vote they refused to approve the grant because the Rev. Carl Bean, director of the project, had joined the ACLU and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in a lawsuit that accused the county of being negligent and discriminatory in education about acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Supervisors Mike Antonovich and Pete Schabarum voted to deny the funds to the project. Torres set May 26 for a hearing on the order to show cause.