{"id":2806,"date":"2011-07-13T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T13:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2011-08-17T08:36:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T12:36:47","slug":"times-union-latfor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/07\/13\/times-union-latfor\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Union: LATFOR is named as defendant, but not actually defending the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Confidential (a Times Union blog) <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/74467\/is-latfor-really-defending-itself\/\">points out<\/a> that, in the <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/little\/\">lawsuit<\/a> to bring prison-based gerrymandering back to New York, one of the defendants is not actually defending the law.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR) is responsible for redistricting in New York, but &#8220;hasn\u2019t exactly been vigorous in defending itself in a lawsuit filed about the issue&#8230;&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThis makes perfect sense: LATFOR is co-chaired by Assemblyman Jack McEneny, D-Albany and Sen. Mike Nozzolio, R-Seneca County. Nozzolio has expressed doubts about the legality of a 2010 law that directed LATFOR to count prison inmates at their last home address instead of at their jail cells. Counting inmates in jail has been derided as prison-based gerrymandering, and inflates population in upstate, rural, largely Republican areas at the expense of downstate, urban, largely Democratic precincts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSeveral of Nozzolio\u2019s Republican colleagues in the Senate, including Betty Little of Queensbury, are plaintiffs in the suit. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/opinion\/article\/What-happened-to-the-promise-1459661.php\">LATFOR is so-far ignoring the new law<\/a>, which is causing groups like the NAACP to cry foul.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprising that LATFOR fails to defend the law in court, since it&#8217;s actually ignoring the law when drawing new districts for New York State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}