Molina criticizes county maps

A plan for new Los Angeles County supervisor districts that mostly preserves the status quo drew sharp criticism from two supervisors and some outside experts who are pushing for an alternative plan to give Latinos more political clout. Christina Villacorte in the Daily News,

Supervisor Gloria Molina argued the redistricting proposal endorsed by the board's Boundary Review Committee would violate the Voting Rights Act by packing the largest concentration of Latinos into a single district and then dividing the rest of them among the other four districts.

She said Latinos should be the majority in two out of the five districts, since they represent 48 percent of the county's population.