{"id":8225,"date":"2015-03-11T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=8225"},"modified":"2015-03-11T12:02:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:02:51","slug":"aclu-suit-jefferson-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2015\/03\/11\/aclu-suit-jefferson-fl\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU files lawsuit challenging &#8220;prison gerrymandering&#8221; election districts in Florida county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/aclufl.org\/2015\/03\/09\/clu-files-lawsuit-challenging-prison-gerrymandering-election-districts-in-florida-county\/\">filed a federal lawsuit<\/a> challenging an election system in Jefferson County, Florida, which counts the state prison population in the drawing of district maps. The <a href=\"http:\/\/aclufl.org\/resources\/calvin-et-al-v-jefferson-county-prison-gerrymandering-complaint\/\">complaint<\/a> argues that the 2013 Redistricting Plan violates the &#8220;one person, one vote&#8221; standard of the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/aclufl.org\/2015\/03\/09\/clu-files-lawsuit-challenging-prison-gerrymandering-election-districts-in-florida-county\/\">ACLU&#8217;s press release<\/a>. And check out the <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/50states\/FL.html\">Florida page<\/a> of our <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/50states\/\">2010 report<\/a> to learn more about the negative impact of prison gerrymandering in Florida, on both the local and state levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida filed a federal lawsuit challenging an election system in Jefferson County, Florida, which counts the state prison population in the drawing of district maps. The complaint argues that the 2013 Redistricting Plan violates the &#8220;one person, one vote&#8221; standard of the 14th Amendment. For more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[43],"class_list":["post-8225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}