On July 2th6, New Jersey Republican Leaders of New Jersey's Redistricting Commissions, had submitted a Request, to Secretary of State, Tahesha Way (D), for Clarification on how State Incarcerated Individuals should be Counted in the Reapportionment and Redistricting Processes.
Under S758, Passed in 2020, New Jersey must Count Incarcerated Individuals at their Last known Residential Address, for the purposes of Legislative Redistricting, rather than the Location of their Incarceration at the time of the Census.
Additionally, A698, which currently awaits Action from Gov. Phil Murphy (D), would Expand that Requirement to Redistricting for Mnicipal, County, School Board, and Congressional Purposes.
Under S758 and A698, the Secretary of State, must Submit an Apportionment Report based on Numbers from the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC).
Legislative Apportionment Commission Chairman Al Barlas (R) and Congressional Redistricting Commission, Chairman Doug Steinhardt (R), said in their Request to Way, that the U.S. Census Bureau's use of Differential Privacy in the 2020 Census would produce Data Inconsistent with DOC Data, because "this statistical technique deliberately manipulates census data to assertedly protect the confidentiality of respondents by introducing statistical noise; into both population totals and demographic characteristics."
Barlas and Steinhardt asked whether there was a Plan for “addressing the consequences of differential privacy with regard to New Jersey’s prison populations [and] ... how will discrepancies between census and DOC data be rectified.”
Barlas and Steinhardt Requested that Way respond by Aug. 2nd.
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