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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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Voters will know in the next three weeks how Jacksonville's City Council districts will be configured in the spring elections.
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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.
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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.
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The Jacksonville City Council has finalized a map of new council districts to submit in federal court ahead of a Nov. 8 deadline.
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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.
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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.
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Residents of the historic neighborhood oppose a redistricting plan that would split their part of the city into three City Council districts.
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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.
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Community groups want Jacksonville City Council to create new council maps that they say will more fairly represent the city's sizable Black population.