A long-running feud between Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich and the American Civil Liberties Union heated up again Tuesday after the supervisor accused the group of not doing enough to prevent abuses in the county's jails.
During a discussion about reforms made based on recommendations from a commission that studied jail violence, Antonovich said he wanted to know how much money the county had paid the ACLU to monitor conditions in the lockups.
"We were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in the jail to see that everything was going well and to be the eyes of the public, so to say, and yet we had all of these allegations which were proven to be factual because of convictions that have taken place," Antonovich said.