The State - News from Aug. 10, 1986

Frank Scott, 52, who claimed in a lawsuit that he had been demoted and transferred by the federal Farmers Home Administration because he reported racial discrimination by the agency, has won reinstatement and $13,500 in back pay. Scott accepted a settlement allowing him a choice of jobs within the agency in Stockton or in Sacramento County. Scott had complained about a memo from James Hallett, former California director for the Farmers Home Administration, saying that applicants for loans on a subdivision being built by a black contractor could not live more than 10 miles from their work. An agency memo warned against redlining, saying that “discriminatory practices in any form must not and will not be tolerated.”