BREAKING NEWS | A federal judge rejected a redistricting plan submitted by the Jacksonville City Council and ruled that a map proposed by civil rights groups who sued the city over voting boundaries is the best plan moving forward.
City Council President Terrance Freeman during a meeting to redraw city council and school board maps.– A federal judge on Monday rejected a redistricting plan submitted by the Jacksonville City Council and ruled that a mapis the best plan moving forward.
But when Judge Marcia Morales Howard issued her ruling on Duval County’s boundary maps for city council and school board members Monday evening, she sided with the Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP and other civil rights groups who filed their objections to the city’s remedial maps and proposed three maps of their own.
This spring, Jacksonville will elect new city council members but where some of those districts will line up is up in the air. The traditionally Black council districts could undergo major changes because of a lawsuit filed earlier this year by various groups and individuals like “I think, because the city has taken the community for granted for so long, especially the Black community. And I think the way they drew their first map, which was thrown out, and we looked at the second map, they presented to the court, which really was not that much different. It was tinkered with a little bit, but really not that much different. So I would be very happy for the City of Jacksonville.
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