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(§)MALDEF <br />Date: 5-23-23 <br />Item No.: 33 <br />The Latino Legal Voice for Civil Rights in America. <br />National Headquarters <br />MALDEF Nonprofit Center <br />May 22 2023 <br />634 S. Spring Street, 12th Fl. <br />Los Angeles, CA 90014 <br />TEL: 213.629.2512 <br />VIA EMAIL <br />Fax: 213.629.0266 <br />City of Riverside City Council <br />c/o Donesia Gause, City Clerk <br />Atlanta <br />Program Office <br />Riverside City Hall <br />500 West Lanier Avenue <br />3900 Main St, 7th Floor <br />Suite 908 <br />Riverside, CA 92522 <br />Fayetteville, GA 30215 <br />Tel: 678.559.1071 <br />Email: city__clerk@riversideca.gov <br />Fax: 678.559.1079 <br />Chicago Re: Riverside City Council — Consideration of Two New Mgp Proposals. <br />Regional Office <br />11 East Adams Street <br />Suite 700 Dear Members of the Riverside City Council and Ms. Gause: <br />Chicago, IL 60603 <br />TEL: 312.427.0701 <br />Fax: 312.427.0691 On behalf of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational <br />Fund), I write regarding the City of Riverside's two new redistricting map proposals, <br />Los Angeles draft Maps A2.2 and 131.2. MALDEF recently learned that the Riverside City <br />Regional Office <br />634 S. Spring Street, Council will consider these two proposals this week, nearly two months after the City <br />11th Fl. Council completed the redistricting process. MALDEF urges the City Council to <br />Los Angeles, CA 90014 cease consideration of these two proposals and to pass an ordinance reflecting Map <br />TEL: 21 .629.2 12 <br />66 A4.A Mt. Rubidoux Edit), which the Cit approved on March 28 2023. <br />Fax: 213.629.0266 ( ) Y pp <br />Sacramento Besides misleading community members with this late deviation from the <br />Program Office process that concluded in March, the Ci Cil risks afoul of federal and <br />1512 14th Street p ouncs running <br />Sacramento, CA 95814 state law if it enacts either of these redistricting maps. Adoption of either of these <br />Tel: 916.444.3031 maps could violate the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, the California FAIR MAPS <br />Fax: 916.444.7207 Act, and California law regarding mid -decade redistricting. <br />San Antonio <br />Regional Office Map B1.2 would violate section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act if enacted. <br />110 Broadway Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA), 52 U.S.C. §10301, requires the <br />Suite 300 <br />San Antonio, Tx 78205 City of Riverside to adopt a plan that includes at least three council wards in which <br />TEL: 210.224.5476 Latinos constitute a majority of the citizen -voting -age population (CVAP). Federal <br />Fax: 210.224.5382 law is clear that in determining compliance under Section 2 of the VRA, "CVAP is <br />Washington, D.C. the appropriate measure to use in determining whether an additional effective <br />Regional Office majority -minority district can be created." Luna v. County of Kern, 291 F.Supp.3d <br />1016 16th Street, NW 1088, 1107 (E.D. Cal. 2018) (quoting Cano v. Davis, 211 F.Supp.2d 1208, 1233 (C.D. <br />Suite 100 Cal. 2002)) . However, Map B1.2 only has 2 wards (6 and 7) in which Latinos are the <br />Washington, DC 20036 <br />Tel: 202.293.2828 majority of CVAP according to the data reported by the City and its consultants, <br />Redistricting Partners. 131.2's Ward 1 is 47.4% LCVAP, and Ward 5 is 46.5% <br />LCVAP. <br />The Latino Legal Voice for Civil Rights in America <br />www.malde£orjz <br />