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1 he Hispanic population
in the U S. in the year 2000
is expected to stand at more
than 25 million people or
about 9% of the total population While Hispanics are
growing faster than any other
maiorgroup. theirgains in
the political arena are just
beginning to materialize.
Currently less than 1% of all
elected officials in this country
are Hispanic
Lack of Hispanic political
participation is neither a
recent nor unknown phenomenon. A history of voting
discrimination coupled with
English literacy requirements,
at-large election systems and
gerrymandered districts have
largely contributed to the
disenfranchisement of the
Hispanic community Increasing the representation and the
voting strength of Hispanics
depends on basic changes in
the systems for electing public
officials
When MALDEF filed its
historic lawsuit against the
Los Angeles County Board of
Supervisors on August 24,
1988, it relied on the experience and expertise gained in
voting rights challenges in
Texas and other states In
Garza v. County of Los Angeles,
we charged that the all-white
male Board has deliberately
fragmented the
geographically and politically
cohesive Hispanic community
and has prevented Hispanics
from electing a candidate of
their choice throughout the
County's 138-year history.
During the trial, which
began on lanuary 2, 1990,
MALDEF showed that a
history of discrimination
against the Hispanic community continues to exclude
Hispanics from the social,
economic and political fabric
of the County Attorneys for
the plaintiffs showed that a
Hispanic voting age majority
district could be created in LA
County refuting the defendants' claim that such a
district would be impossible
to achieve. Additionally, the
suit raised the issue of the
Board's size, contending five
individuals cannot effectively
represent the 8 million
persons who reside in the
County The suit asks the
Court to order new elections
be held in constitutionally
redrawn district boundaries
and that the Board be
expanded beyond its current
five members
During the 3-month trial
more than 60 witnesses
testified, and thousands of
documents were admitted-
into evidence. A decision is
expected sometime early this
summer
Increasing Hispanic political
participation begins with the
accurate counting of Hispanics living in this country
During the last year there were
1989. the District Court ruled
that all of the plaintiffs lackeci
standing to maintain a legal
challenge to the Census
Bureau's policy of counting
undocumented persons and
the case was dismissed
No appeal was taken.
Then in the fall of 1988.
a number of cities, states.
organizations and individuals
sued the Department of
Commerce to require an
adjustment to the census
count following the l°90
Census As counsel in this
case, New York v. U.S. Department of Commerce we challenged the Bureau s policy not
to implement a post-enumeration survey and
statistical adjustment
Increasing the representation and lhe
voting strength of Hispanics depends
on basic changes in the systems for
electing public officials.
several unsuccessful attempts
to adversely affect the counting of Hispanics during the
1990 Census
More than two years before
April I, 1990, Census Day, a
suit was filed against the US
Census Bureau by several
northern and eastern Congressmen, by three states and
by the Federation for American Immigration and Reform
opposing the counting of
undocumented persons in the
1990 census.
In May 1988, MALDEF filed
a motion to intervene in Ridge
v. Verity, and Marquez on behalf
of legal residents and undocumented residents Oral
argument was held on
September 23, 1988, and the
United States (representing
the Census Bureau I filed a
motion to dismiss. Our
motion to intervene was
denied but we were invited to
participate as amicus curiae.
We filed an amicus brief on
November 16, 1988, supporting the Bureau's constitutional and statutory duty to
count "all persons " In a 33-
page opinion filed on May 8,
We moved for a preliminary
injunction but the Commerce
Department proposed a
settlement on luly 17 i°89
the date the motion was to
be heard. According to the
agreed settlement the
Commerce Department wouid
appoint a special panel to
consider an adjustment and
would issue guidelines to
determine whether to make an
adjustment by luly 15. 1991.
The proposed guidelines
were published in December,
1989, and MALDEF filed
strongly-worded formal
objections to the guidelines
on February 2. I9Q0 The final
guidelines issued by the
Department on March 12
1990, were little improved
from the proposed rules, and
any prospect for an adiust-
ment was not good We thus
reopened the lawsuit on
March 1990. MALDEF is
committed to ensuring the
most accurate census count
and post-enumeration survey
of the Hispanic community
Object Description
| Title | Written statements submitted by witnesses scheduled to speak at the May 1, 1991 public meeting of the Independent Commission of the LAPD |
| Description | Written statements submitted by witnesses scheduled to speak at the May 1, 1991 public meeting of the Independent Commission of the LAPD: ❧ Section 1: Statement of Stewart Kwoh, executive director of Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC) ❧ Section 2: Testimony of Vibiana Andrade, regional counsel of Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) ❧ Section 2: Exhibit A - letter - from: Antonia Hernandez, MALDEF president and general counsel ❧ Section 2: Exhibit B - MALDEF Annual Report, 1989-90 ❧ Section 3: Summary of testimony of R. Samuel Paz on behalf of the Mexican American Bar Association of the LA County ❧ Section 3: Exhibit 1 - Superior Court of the State of California for the County of LA, Adelaido Altamirano v. The City of Los Angeles, et al. (deposition of Lt. William D. Hall) ❧ Section 3: Exhibit 2 - Superior Court of the State of California for the County of LA, Adelaido Altamirano v. The City of Los Angeles, et al. (deposition of Det. Jerry L. Mount) ❧ Section 3: Exhibit 3 - Investigation of officer-involved shootings ❧ Section 3: Exhibit 4 - R. Samuel Paz - resume ❧ Section 3: Exhibit 5 - Newspaper Clippings ❧ Section 4: Testimony of Citizens in Support of the Chief of Police (CISCOP) ❧ Section 5: Summary of testimony of Roger Coggan, esq., director, legal services department, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center ❧ Section 5: attachment 1 - Superior Court of the State of California for the County of LA, Mitchels Grobeson, et al. v. The City of Los Angeles, et al. (deposition of Kenneth G. Bickman) ❧ Section 5: attachment 2 - letter - from: Roger Coggan, director, legal services, LA Gay and Lesbian Community; to: Ira Reiner, LA County district attorney, and James Hahn, LA city attorney ❧ Section 5: attachment 3 - Article - "How bad are relations between gays and the LAPD?" ❧ Section 5: attachment 4 - "Declaration of Thomas J. Coleman, Jr." ❧ Section 5: attachment 5 - "Testimony of Christopher Commission" ❧ Section 6: "Report to Independent Commission" by Louis A. Custrini, vice-president-communications, Merchants and Manufacturers Association ❧ Index. PART OF A SERIES: Materials in the series fall into one of several categories related to the Independent Commission's work product: (1) Commission meeting materials, which include meeting agendas, work plans, memoranda, and articles about police misconduct that were circulated and reviewed during the Commission's internal meetings; (2) public correspondence, which includes citizen complaints against the LAPD in the form of written testimony, articles, and an audio cassette tape, as well as letters drafted by citizens in support of the LAPD; (3) summaries of interviews held with LAPD officers regarding Departmental procedures and relations; (4) public meeting materials, which include transcripts, supplementary documents, and witness statements that were reviewed at the Commission's public meetings; (5) press releases related to the formation and work product of the Commission; and (6) miscellaneous materials reviewed by the Commission during its study, including LAPD personnel and training manuals, a memorandum of understanding, and messages from the LAPD's Mobile Digital Terminal (MDT) system. |
| Coverage date | 1991-05-01 |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date created | 1991-05-01 |
| Type | texts |
| Format | 141 p. |
| Format (aat) | presentations (communicative events) |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 |
| Series | Independent Commission File List |
| File | Public Sessions |
| Box and folder | box 24, folder 25, item 1 |
| Provenance | The collection was given to the University of Southern California on July 31, 1991. |
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| Title | Written statements submitted by witnesses scheduled to speak, p. 40 |
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| Full text | ■'* 2 2 vi < :-3S 1 he Hispanic population in the U S. in the year 2000 is expected to stand at more than 25 million people or about 9% of the total population While Hispanics are growing faster than any other maiorgroup. theirgains in the political arena are just beginning to materialize. Currently less than 1% of all elected officials in this country are Hispanic Lack of Hispanic political participation is neither a recent nor unknown phenomenon. A history of voting discrimination coupled with English literacy requirements, at-large election systems and gerrymandered districts have largely contributed to the disenfranchisement of the Hispanic community Increasing the representation and the voting strength of Hispanics depends on basic changes in the systems for electing public officials When MALDEF filed its historic lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on August 24, 1988, it relied on the experience and expertise gained in voting rights challenges in Texas and other states In Garza v. County of Los Angeles, we charged that the all-white male Board has deliberately fragmented the geographically and politically cohesive Hispanic community and has prevented Hispanics from electing a candidate of their choice throughout the County's 138-year history. During the trial, which began on lanuary 2, 1990, MALDEF showed that a history of discrimination against the Hispanic community continues to exclude Hispanics from the social, economic and political fabric of the County Attorneys for the plaintiffs showed that a Hispanic voting age majority district could be created in LA County refuting the defendants' claim that such a district would be impossible to achieve. Additionally, the suit raised the issue of the Board's size, contending five individuals cannot effectively represent the 8 million persons who reside in the County The suit asks the Court to order new elections be held in constitutionally redrawn district boundaries and that the Board be expanded beyond its current five members During the 3-month trial more than 60 witnesses testified, and thousands of documents were admitted- into evidence. A decision is expected sometime early this summer Increasing Hispanic political participation begins with the accurate counting of Hispanics living in this country During the last year there were 1989. the District Court ruled that all of the plaintiffs lackeci standing to maintain a legal challenge to the Census Bureau's policy of counting undocumented persons and the case was dismissed No appeal was taken. Then in the fall of 1988. a number of cities, states. organizations and individuals sued the Department of Commerce to require an adjustment to the census count following the l°90 Census As counsel in this case, New York v. U.S. Department of Commerce we challenged the Bureau s policy not to implement a post-enumeration survey and statistical adjustment Increasing the representation and lhe voting strength of Hispanics depends on basic changes in the systems for electing public officials. several unsuccessful attempts to adversely affect the counting of Hispanics during the 1990 Census More than two years before April I, 1990, Census Day, a suit was filed against the US Census Bureau by several northern and eastern Congressmen, by three states and by the Federation for American Immigration and Reform opposing the counting of undocumented persons in the 1990 census. In May 1988, MALDEF filed a motion to intervene in Ridge v. Verity, and Marquez on behalf of legal residents and undocumented residents Oral argument was held on September 23, 1988, and the United States (representing the Census Bureau I filed a motion to dismiss. Our motion to intervene was denied but we were invited to participate as amicus curiae. We filed an amicus brief on November 16, 1988, supporting the Bureau's constitutional and statutory duty to count "all persons " In a 33- page opinion filed on May 8, We moved for a preliminary injunction but the Commerce Department proposed a settlement on luly 17 i°89 the date the motion was to be heard. According to the agreed settlement the Commerce Department wouid appoint a special panel to consider an adjustment and would issue guidelines to determine whether to make an adjustment by luly 15. 1991. The proposed guidelines were published in December, 1989, and MALDEF filed strongly-worded formal objections to the guidelines on February 2. I9Q0 The final guidelines issued by the Department on March 12 1990, were little improved from the proposed rules, and any prospect for an adiust- ment was not good We thus reopened the lawsuit on March 1990. MALDEF is committed to ensuring the most accurate census count and post-enumeration survey of the Hispanic community |
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