{"id":6744,"date":"2013-03-07T18:17:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T23:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=6744"},"modified":"2021-12-15T21:54:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T02:54:58","slug":"oregon-hb-2686-publichearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2013\/03\/07\/oregon-hb-2686-publichearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Public hearing on bill to end prison gerrymandering in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nPrison gerrymandering was addressed at an Oregon House Committee on Rules <a href=\"https:\/\/olis.leg.state.or.us\/liz\/2013R1\/Committees\/HRULES\/2013-03-04-15-00\/Agenda\">public hearing<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leg.state.or.us\/listn\/archive\/archive.2013s\/HRULES-201303041459.ram\">audio .ram file<\/a>] on Monday. The hearing covered two bills and a constitutional amendment that together would establish a redistricting commission. One of the bills, <a href=\"https:\/\/olis.leg.state.or.us\/liz\/2013R1\/Measures\/Overview\/HB2686\">HB 2686<\/a>, would also end prison gerrymandering in the state. HB2868 was introduced with bi-partisan sponsorship by Representatives Berger and Bailey.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130323162445\/http:\/\/pdxcityclub.org\/content\/why-membership\">City Club of Portland testified<\/a> in support of the bill. The legislation follows the recommendations of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxcityclub.org\/sites\/default\/files\/reports\/Redistricting_2012.pdf\">Club&#8217;s report analyzing Oregon&#8217;s redistricting process<\/a> [PDF], as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141006191248\/http:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/research-reports\/OR_032212_Report_Redistricting_2011.html\">Common Cause Oregon&#8217;s report<\/a>, both released last year.  The reports critique the way prison populations were handled in redistricting, and the City Club&#8217;s report specifically called for that session&#8217;s legislation to end prison gerrymandering (<a href=\"http:\/\/gov.oregonlive.com\/bill\/2011\/SB720\/\">SB 720<\/a>) to be considered again this session.   SB 720 is back for consideration this year as <a href=\"https:\/\/olis.leg.state.or.us\/liz\/2013R1\/Measures\/Overview\/SB516\">SB 516<\/a>, sponsored by the committee on General Government, Consumer And Small Business Protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon House Committee on Rules held public hearing on redistricting bills, City Club of Portland supports bills to end prison gerrymandering .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[30],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","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=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9919,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions\/9919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}