Anchorage Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews ruled that the board must provide a better legal justification for the maps or redraw them.
Anchorage Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews ruled that the board must revisit how it arrived at the maps. It will either have to provide a better legal justification for the maps or redraw them.
Matthews also found that the board violated the rights of East Anchorage residents to be treated equally as those of Eagle River by drawing a district that includes both the Eagle River Valley and the South Muldoon neighborhood. While he stopped short of finding that the board reached a consensus in private, Matthews wrote that he saw “ample evidence of secretive process at play. Further, where the Court is left with such an impression, it is undeniable that these actions have eroded the public trust in the fairness and openness of the redistricting process.”
“To each of Skagway’s points, the Board replied: ‘So what?’ This is not the response the people should expect to receive from the public entity in charge of redistricting and constitutionally required to hold public hearings,” Matthews wrote. “To the extent that Board Members felt uncomfortable undertaking deliberative discussions in accordance with the law, that should have been considered before accepting a position on the Board,” he wrote. “The Open Meetings Act is clear that ‘all meetings’ are open to the public and all deliberations likewise be conducted openly.”
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