{"id":2659,"date":"2011-06-20T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2011-07-13T12:29:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T16:29:32","slug":"meggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/06\/20\/meggers\/","title":{"rendered":"What about prisons? &#8211; Georgia Redistricting Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 25, Linda Meggers, the former director of the Georgia Reapportionment Services Unit, gave a presentation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanet.com\/\">Georgia Municipal Association<\/a> training session on Redistricting Mechanics. She reviewed the relevant state and federal law, including a detailed discussion of the Voting Rights Act in her briefing for city officials.<\/p>\n<p>The very first question asked at the session was: &#8220;What about prisons?&#8221; Linda Meggers&#8217; excellent answer about how and why to adjust the Census and avoid prison-based gerrymandering is in the clip below:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"590\" height=\"472\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pHUcYRRfwf4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;start=4475\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"590\" height=\"472\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pHUcYRRfwf4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;start=4475\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>City officials who need assistance identifying prison populations in the redistricting data may find our <a href=\"\/locator2010\/\">Correctional Facility Locator<\/a>, or the <a href=\"\/data\/2010\/groupquartersshapefile.html\">shapefile<\/a> we made from the Census Bureau&#8217;s Advance Group Quarters Summary File helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video clip, Linda Meggers explains to Georgia City Attorneys how to avoid prison-based gerrymandering. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}