{"id":750,"date":"2010-02-02T19:55:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=750"},"modified":"2021-12-15T22:09:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T03:09:11","slug":"orwihearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/02\/02\/orwihearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearings held in Oregon and Wisconsin today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, the Wisconsin Assembly held a hearing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.wi.us\/2009\/data\/AJR-63.pdf\">AJR63<\/a> [PDF], the Census Adjustment Amendment, today.  The <a href=\"mms:\/\/71.87.25.133\/IVOD\/COM\/COM_100202_ASM_ELECT.wmv\">video<\/a> and <a href=\"mms:\/\/71.87.25.133\/IVOD\/COM\/COM_100202_ASM_ELECT.wma\">audio<\/a> of the Assembly Committee on Elections and Campaign Reform hearing is available online courtesy of Wisconsin Eye (start at 57:37 in). The amendment would prohibit the state and local governments from using prison populations to pad legislative districts.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\nThe amendment&#8217;s lead sponsor, Rep. Kessler, spoke in support, and was followed by Andrea Kaminski, Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of WI Education Fund (at 1h10min in video). Ms. Kaminski&#8217;s statement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lwvwi.org\/cms\/images\/stories\/PDFs\/Legislative\/Support%20AJR%2063%20redistricting.pdf\">statement in support<\/a> [PDF] is on the League&#8217;s website.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis morning, I testified by telephone before the Oregon Senate Rules Committee about <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100415033513\/http:\/\/www.leg.state.or.us\/10ss1\/measpdf\/sb1000.dir\/sb1028.intro.pdf\">Senate Bill 1028<\/a> [PDF]   This bill would determine the home addresses of incarcerated people and adjust the federal Census prior to redistricting. I put the urgency of this bill in the context of a rapid rise in incarceration coming in to conflict with the state constitutional definition of residence. I said:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">In short, the Census Bureau counts people in prison as residents of the facility. The Supreme Court requires you to draw equally sized districts based on where people reside, and you have a State Constitution which for more than a 100 years explicitly defines residence differently than the Census Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso testifying in support was the lead sponsor of the bill, Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100203091801\/http:\/\/www.leg.state.or.us\/shieldsc\/\">Chip Shields<\/a>, Marcus Mundy, President of the Urban League of Portland, Juanita Head Walton of the African-American Chamber of Commerce, and Janice Thompson of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/about\/staff-directory\/cheri-quickmire.html\">Common Cause Oregon<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Senate Rules committee hearing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leg.state.or.us\/listn\/archive\/archive.10ss1\/SRULES-201002020900.ram\">audio<\/a> [real audio] is available on the senate website.  (Fast forward to the end of the first ~5 minutes, let the next file automatically load, and then fast forward to 13:25 in the next file.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearings were held in the Oregon Senate and Wisconsin Assembly on proposals to adjust the census to eliminate prison-based gerrymandering today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9932,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/9932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}