Redistricting Affects All Utah Citizens

In the next two years, Utah legislative bodies will be redrawing boundaries for U.S. House of Representatives, Utah House of Representatives and Utah Senate members, local city councils, county councils and school boards. The League of Women Voters wants the process to be transparent and to allow for informed citizen participation throughout. This site includes reference material and meetings as information is available. This list is intended as a reference list for interested citizens to learn more about the process. It will be updated as more information becomes available.

Reference List

Census Data
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/

2001 Utah Redistricting:
http://le.utah.gov/documents/redistricting/redistricting.htm
Bryson Morgan's honors thesis on 2001 documentation and a reference list about redistricting.

League materials:
http://www.lwv.org/Content/ContentGroups/Organizational/PocanticoRedistrictingConferenceReportFI NAL.pdf

Outline of the process:
http://www.lwvutah.org/Studies/UNIT-Materials-Redistricting-Jan2011.pdf

League materials from other states:
http://cavotes.org/issues/redistricting-implementation http://palwv.org/issues/redistricting.html

http://lwv-va.org/redistrict.html

http://www.lwvmn.org/Page.aspx?pid=431

Play the redistricting game: www.redistrictinggame.org

The Brennan Center has several and recent articles about redistricting. The A Citizens Guide to Redistricting, 2010 edition is comprehensive :
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/pages/redistricting_for_advocates http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/a_citizens_guide_to_redistricting

The Campaign Legal Center has a section on redistricting: www.campaignlegalcenter.org

The Brookings Institute has some materials on redistricting: www.brookings.edu
Two January events focused on Toward Public Participation in RedistrictingÑinjecting Transparency into the Processand The Politics and Process of Congressional Redistricting.Ó One can watch videos of the events at :
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0120_redistricting.aspx

http://www.ncsl.org/Home/SearchResults/tabid/702/Default.aspx?zoom_query=redistricting

Do it Yourself Redistricting
Information about the Public Mapping Project's The District Builder, an online mapping tool application can be found at: http://www.publicmapping.org/

http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=547258

http://www.campaignsandelections.com/publications/campaign-election/2011/January-2011/The- Dawn-of-Do-It-Yourself-Redistricting

Meetings

Salt Lake County

The Salt Lake County Commission has established a citizens advisory commission to advise the council. Salt Lake County and the Granite, Canyons, and Jordan School districts will be redistricted. Their website is http://www.slco.org/html/redistCommission.html

The next meeting of the redistricting commission is March 17 at 4 pm in Room N2003, North Building, Salt Lake County Government Center, 2001 South State Street, SLC

 

Meeting all over state (as of 5/9/11)

A chart of dates, times, town