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Settlement Reached with Hispanic Voters in Rural
California Town
HANFORD,
California (AP) March 23, 2005 - Hispanic voters in this rural San Joaquin
Valley town have won a landmark settlement in the first case to be resolved
under the California Voting Rights Act, according to the plaintiffs' attorney.
Latinos
here sued the Hanford Joint Union High School District last year, alleging the
way elections are structured keeps Hispanic candidates from winning.
Like the
majority of school districts across California, voters in Hanford elect school
board members from the community at large, rather than from districts within the
city. The suit, asserted the at-large system serves to dilute the Hispanic
voting bloc — thus denying Hispanics the chance to set district policies.
No
Hispanic has served on the high school district's five-member board dating back
more than two decades, according to the lawsuit, though the Hispanic population
has grown steadily and stands at around 39 percent of Hanford's 42,000
residents.
As a
result of the settlement, the school board has agreed to implement
district-based elections.
It is the
first such settlement under the law that went into effect in 2002, said Robert
Rubin, Legal Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and lead
plaintiffs' attorney.
"At-large elections
have long shut out the Latino community from having a meaningful voice in their
children's education," Rubin said. | |
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