“A high-stakes, six-month battle over who should be counted for representation in Congress

ended quietly in a judge’s chamber Friday night when the Trump administration agreed not to

release any population numbers from the 2020 Census for congressional apportionment or

redistricting before the president leaves office.”

“The U.S. Census Bureau’s embattled director on Monday announced he is resigning nearly a

year ahead of schedule and will retire on Wednesday, the day Democratic President-elect Joe

Biden is inaugurated, according to a letter on the bureau’s website.”

“Steven Dillingham’s resignation follows a Jan. 12 memo from the Commerce Department’s

Office of Inspector General raising questions about whether he was pushing bureau employees

to finalize a technical report on the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States

before Biden took office."

“The letter from Commerce Department Inspector General Peggy Gustafson to Census Bureau

Director Steven Dillingham says several whistleblowers have reported that political appointees

close to the architect of the administration’s hard-line anti-immigration policy have been

pushing career employees to finalize the document just days before Trump leaves office.”

The California Citizens Redistricting Commission (CRC) released a Request for Proposal (RFP) for qualified proposers to provide professional and technical redistricting and line drawing services. These services will be used by the Commission to develop district lines in conformity with strict, non-partisan rules designated to create districts that will provide for fair representation for all Californians.

The next meetings of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission are January 26-28. You

can review the agendas here.

at (916) 200-3950, or visit our website at https://californiatargetbook.com