Council Adopts Ordinance Recognizing Their Districts Need to be "Redrawn"

The Plaquemines Parish council has taken the first step in the redistricting process. At their October 14 meeting, the council approved an ordinance that declared their nine districts were “mal-apportioned” and needed to be “redrawn.” The process, technically, should have been undertaken in 2020, when the census data was collected. But complications from the COVID-19 pandemic forced the federal…