redistricting

Voters will know in the next three weeks how Jacksonville's City Council districts will be configured in the spring elections.

The map submitted by Jacksonville City Council failed to fix the problem and made few changes to racially gerrymandered districts, the plaintiffs said.

The redistricting plan, which Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed through the Florida Legislature during a special session last April, was used in the elections amid constitutional challenges in federal and state courts.

The Jacksonville City Council has finalized a map of new council districts to submit in federal court ahead of a Nov. 8 deadline.

A judge struck down the city's earlier map as racial gerrymandering, but it’s not clear that the council has enough votes to approve new map.

A special committee on maps discarded many of the changes made over the course of three meetings and decided to move forward with one of the original four draft maps.

Residents of the historic neighborhood oppose a redistricting plan that would split their part of the city into three City Council districts.

City Council President Terrance Freeman says the council has not "chosen two maps" but "narrowed our focus to two" for the special redistricting committee to work on.

Community groups want Jacksonville City Council to create new council maps that they say will more fairly represent the city's sizable Black population.

City Council President Terrance Freeman said City Council will pass a new map by Nov. 4, four days before the court’s deadline — while still appealing the court ruling.