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Committee reviews bill to count incarcerated Oregonians at home addresses for redistricting
Summary
The House Committee on Rules opened a March 19 public hearing on House Bill 2,250, which would require the Department of Corrections to record the pre-incarceration county of residence for adults in custody and share that information with the Portland State University Population Research Center to produce adjusted counts for redistricting.
House Committee on Rules Chair Bowman opened a public hearing March 19 on House Bill 2,250, which would direct the Department of Corrections to record pre-incarceration residence information for adults in custody and share that data with the Portland State University Population Research Center to help adjust census counts used in redistricting.
Representative Lisa Bridal, a sponsor of the bill, told the committee the change is meant to correct what she described as a distortion in redistricting data when people incarcerated in Oregon are counted at the location of the prison rather than at their home communities. "A basic principle of democracy is that representation is distributed equally on the population," Bridal said, arguing the bill would better align redistricting with…
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