{"id":3098,"date":"2011-07-27T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2021-11-17T12:47:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:47:24","slug":"imperial-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/07\/27\/imperial-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial County unanimously rejects prison-based gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Supervisors in Imperial County, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/ca\/report.html\">California<\/a>, is ensuring that all votes cast in its supervisor districts will carry equal political clout when the redistricting process is over.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May, the Board <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110617065204\/http:\/\/articles.ivpressonline.com\/2011-05-19\/supervisor-districts_29562942\">voted 5-0<\/a> to exclude the approximately 8,400 people incarcerated in Calipatria and Centinela State Prisons for redistricting purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/kxoradio.com\/news\/local\/1580-preliminary-redistricting-maps-presented-to-the-supervisors.html\">news brief<\/a> from KXO Radio explains that the issue was a no-brainer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Robert Moreno chaired the [Redistricting Advisory Committee]. He had presented the Supervisors with 3 possible maps. One included the prison population in the County. The Supervisors followed the lead of most other counties in the state, and rejected that map. <span class=\"pullquote\">They said the residents at the two state prisons were not voting members of the public, and most were not permanent residents of the county.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Board is still deciding between preliminary districting plans, but they&#8217;ll make their final decisions with the assurance that each option is safe from of the nefarious practice of <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/impact.html\">prison-based gerrymandering.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imperial County Board of Supervisors votes 5-0 to reject prison-based gerrymandering and draw five genuinely equal districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[31],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9843,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions\/9843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}