The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (UCLA LPPI) announced today that it has received $125,000 in general funding over two years from the Weingart Foundation to support all of UCLA LPPI’s functions, including its research, data collection, advocacy and leadership development activities as well as growth of its staff.
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They issued their proposals after commissioning an analysis by Matt Barreto, a political science professor and faculty co-director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project. His analysis found the initial maps proposed by all four commissioners would violate the federal Voting Rights Act, potentially opening up the state to lawsuits and court intervention.
In an Oct. 27 memo from the UCLA Voting Rights Project, advocates argued three of the four originally proposed maps would dilute the power of Latino voters. Under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, maps cannot dilute the representation of racial minority groups.
Map 5 is supported by the ACLU of Southern California, Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA) and the UCLA Voting Rights Project.
It’s the largest amount of support the center has received in a single year from the state, said Kelly Lytle Hernandez, the center’s director and a UCLA professor of history. The funds will support a range of initiatives, including stipends for student research, the Black Policy Project and Million Dollar Hoods, an ongoing study of…
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