Andrew Pantazi - The Tributary
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The city will pay $100,000 in a lawsuit that alleged City Council maps were racially gerrymandered. -
Jacksonville City Council will consider whether to accept a court-ordered map and pay the plaintiffs' legal fees. -
The move indicates Jacksonville may be on the verge of settling with the NAACP and other plaintiffs. -
Democrat Charles Garrison, a candidate for At-Large Group 5, alleges that fellow Democrat Nahshon Nicks did not meet residency requirements for the office. -
A federal appeals panel, in a 2-to-1 decision, upheld an order requiring the city to use City Council districts drawn by plaintiffs in a federal redistricting case.
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U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard waived a requirement that candidates in some districts live there for six months. -
Jacksonville's redistricting plan remains undecided, so the city wants a judge to let candidates run for any district. -
U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard ruled Monday that the council’s latest redistricting map didn’t fix what she considered racial gerrymandering. -
City Council members may have made mapmaking decisions in private meetings with city staff, which could violate Florida’s open-government Sunshine Law.
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The map submitted by Jacksonville City Council failed to fix the problem and made few changes to racially gerrymandered districts, the plaintiffs said.
