LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union is warning Nebraska nursing homes not to refuse to treatment patients with HIV.

The civil rights group said Tuesday that it sent letters to six Nebraska nursing homes that refused to treat a man with HIV in the months before his death.

The ACLU says the nursing homes refused to treat John Shelor, so he wound up in a facility in Broken Bow that was more than an hour from his home in Bertrand. He died July 31.

ACLU of Nebraska Executive Director Danielle Conrad says state and federal law prohibits treating someone differently because they have HIV.