The settlement resolves two open-meetings lawsuits filed against the five-member commission, a body that meets every 10 years after the U.S. census to decide how to redraw the state’s political districts.
As part of Wednesday’s settlement, the Redistricting Commission agreed to adopt new rules that aim to prevent a repeat of last year’s opaque, closed-door mapmaking process. Those rule changes will include a ban on commission members retreating into private sessions to negotiate district boundaries, something they did repeatedly last November in the hours before their final deadline to approve new redistricting maps.
At the same time, the settlement ensures that the new political maps approved by the commission won’t
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