Video & Transcript Research : 'data mapping'
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FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Senate in Special Session D Apr 29th, 2026
Florida Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- What data are those population surges based on, and how were they used to create this map?
- Partisan data. Partisan data. And at the same time, we are told this map is race-neutral.
- And when we talk about maps and we talk about looking at data in terms of...
- So when you're doing these maps for data purposes and you look for an address of a Black woman who's
- And then yesterday, his own staff came out and said they prepared the maps using partisan data.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-04-29 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- What data are those population surges based on, and how were they used to create this map?
- What data are those population surges based on, and how were they used to create this map?
- Partisan data. Partisan data. And at the same time, we are told this map is race neutral.
- And when we talk about maps and we talk about looking at data in terms of looking at data in terms of
- And then yesterday, his own staff came out and said they prepared the maps using partisan data.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Delivery of Government Efficiency May 14th, 2025
Delivery of Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- they've implemented basic safeguards. 250 employees have been sued for exemplary damages following data
- SB 2610 provides a legal safe harbor from exemplary damages in data breach lawsuits for businesses that
- businesses, SMBs, on implementing reasonable cybersecurity controls, safeguarding sensitive personal data
- Several states have already enacted similar laws, such as Ohio's 2018 Data Protection Act and Utah's
Keywords:
election officials, confidentiality, personal information, government transparency, public safety, cybersecurity, data breach, breach of system security, exemplary damages, punitive damages, liability shield, safe harbor, small business, mid-sized business, Texas Business & Commerce Code, sensitive personal information, personal identifying information, identity theft, fraud prevention, NIST
TX
Keywords:
grand jury, jury qualifications, jury wheel, small counties, Texas legislation, age verification, obscene devices, online sales, juvenile protection, penalties, antitrust, attorney general, Texas Free Enterprise, business regulations, legal confidentiality, personal identifying information, data brokers, judicial safety, civil rights, data privacy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 2/18/25
Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
Transcript Highlights:
- This is about data. This is a question about this data bill.
- In fact, we meet every two months, and we go through data—police data, our data, judicial data—and we
- In fact, we meet every two months, and we go through data—police data, our data, judicial data—and we
- data police data our and we go through data police data our data<01:12:39.239>
judicial <01:12 - :40.719>
about data judicial data and we think about data judicial data and we think about the
Bills:
HF7
Keywords:
public safety, criminal justice, sentencing guidelines, Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission, public sentencing database, felony dismissals, prosecutor reporting, bail notice, bond posting, law enforcement data, arrest data, public records, sex trafficking, human trafficking, mandatory minimum sentence, peace officer assault, police assault, fleeing police, vehicular flight, stolen motor vehicle
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Senate in Special Session D Apr 29th, 2026
Florida Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- What data are those population surges based on and how were they used to create this map?
- Partisan data. And at the same time, we are told this map is race neutral.
- And when we talk about maps and we talk about looking at data in terms of Looking at data in terms of
- So when you're doing these maps for data purposes and you look for an address of a Black woman who's
- And then yesterday, his own staff came out and said they prepared the maps using partisan data.
Summary:
The Senate convened in special session and took up Senate Bill 8D, later substituted with House Bill 1D, both establishing Florida’s congressional districts. The sponsor, Senator Gates, explained that the Governor had transmitted a proposed redistricting plan on short notice and argued that mid-decade congressional redistricting is legally permissible, citing population growth and the Governor’s view that race-based provisions in the Fair Districts Amendment are unconstitutional. He repeatedly said the Legislature was not being asked to prove the Governor’s legal theory, only to consider the proposal, and noted that no amendments were offered.
A lengthy question-and-answer period followed, with senators raising concerns about the rushed process, lack of statewide public hearings, and the map’s effects on minority communities, compactness, communities of interest, and partisan fairness. Senators questioned whether the map cracked Latino and Black communities, whether partisan data was used, whether the Governor’s office had outside consultants, and whether the plan complied with the Florida Constitution, the Fair Districts Amendment, and the Voting Rights Act. Gates generally deferred on legal conclusions, said the Governor’s representatives had testified the map was race-neutral and used political data only as one factor, and emphasized that any constitutional challenge would be for the courts.
After a motion to temporarily postpone failed by a recorded vote of 12 yeas to 23 nays, the Senate continued debate. Senators Rouson, Bernard, and others spoke in opposition, arguing the proposal was rushed, partisan, and harmful to communities of interest and minority voting power. Gates maintained that the Governor had a constitutional prerogative to propose the map and that the Legislature could accept, reject, or amend it. The House companion bill was then substituted for the Senate bill, read a third time, and the chamber moved into final debate on the congressional redistricting plan.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- First, that the current congressional map, based on then-current census data, was approved in 2010. .
- And today, they unanimously seek to replace it with a map based on now five-year-old census data.
- map.
- Chairman, you said yourself today The data that needed to be used to draw the maps was only decennial
- No one presented an analysis of data to demonstrate that this map violates any law.
Bills:
SB 2, SB 5, SB 9, SB 7, SB 17, SB 4, HB4, HB1, HB3, HB20, HB22, SB9, SB7, SB17, SB4, HB4, SB2, SB5
Keywords:
disaster relief, flood preparedness, emergency funding, local government support, meteorological forecasting, school assessment, public education, accountability, transparency, education standards, STAAR, Texas Education Agency, TEA, public school accountability, school ratings, A-F ratings, assessment reform, student testing, benchmark tests, interim assessments
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
December 4, 2025 - 01:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- data we will be using.
- census data.
- The census data and census geography are in the map drawing application.
- The census data and census geography are in the map drawing application.
- But all of the data that we received from the Census Bureau that is used by staff to draw maps is in
Summary:
The Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting held its first meeting, established a quorum, and opened with remarks from the chair outlining the committee’s purpose and scope. The chair said the committee will focus only on congressional redistricting, will not take public comment at this introductory meeting, and may consider whether to propose a new congressional map ahead of the 2026 session. He emphasized that the work would rely on the 2020 census data, the current congressional map, and the House’s map-drawing software, and he stressed transparency, record retention, and compliance with constitutional prohibitions on drawing districts to favor or disfavor a party or incumbent.
House outside counsel Andy Bartos then gave an educational presentation on redistricting basics and legal standards. He distinguished reapportionment from redistricting, explained that Florida was apportioned 28 congressional seats after the 2020 census, and reviewed the one-person, one-vote rule, noting that congressional districts must be drawn with near-exact population equality. He also described census geography and how counties, tracts, block groups, and blocks are used to build districts, and explained that congressional redistricting follows the ordinary legislative process rather than the special process used for state legislative districts.
Bartos also covered contiguity, explaining that districts must be one connected piece and that mere point-touching is not enough, while bodies of water within a district do not necessarily break contiguity. No questions were asked after the presentation, no votes were taken, and no public testimony was heard. The meeting ended after the chair thanked attendees and said the committee would meet again the following week.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
December 10, 2025 - 09:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- data.
- So we have in the redistricting map-drawing application the same data that we had in 2022, and that includes
- Also, just wanted to ask if we're using 2020 voter activity data for the congressional maps, would there
- If you're asking the data that's available to the map drawing tool is the same data that was available
- I'm asking the data that's available through the map drawing tool is the same data that was available
Summary:
The Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting met for an informational presentation from outside counsel Andy Bartos on the legal standards governing congressional redistricting. He reviewed federal Equal Protection principles, Florida’s non-diminishment provision, and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, explaining how race can be considered in redistricting but generally cannot be the predominant factor. He also discussed the Florida Constitution’s tiered standards, including the prohibition on intentional political favoritism, compactness, and the requirement to use existing political and geographical boundaries where feasible.
Bartos focused on two recent or pending cases: the Florida Supreme Court’s Black Voters Matter decision, which upheld the legislature’s 2022 congressional map and held that the non-diminishment clause does not justify making race predominant absent specific identifiable discrimination, and Louisiana v. Callais, pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, which may further clarify whether race may be used predominantly to comply with the Voting Rights Act or whether Section 2 remains constitutional as applied. He also explained how courts assess compactness and intent, and how data such as the 2020 census, voter registration, turnout, and election results are used for voting-rights analysis.
Members asked about what triggers redistricting, whether the legislature must redraw maps now, what data is available in the mapping tool, how intent is measured, and whether public input opportunities will be provided. Bartos said redistricting timing is largely a legislative judgment unless a court requires changes, that the committee can consider whether BVM or the eventual Callais decision warrants revisions, and that the Callais ruling will bind Louisiana directly but serve as precedent for other courts. No votes or legislative actions were taken, and the meeting adjourned after the presentation and questions.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee Jun 23rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The CPUC is required to adopt maps, but it is also required to include data from the very faulty maps
- The CPUC is required to adopt maps, but it is also required to include data from the very faulty maps
- The bill requires the CPUC to include the data from the BEAD maps and from the federal wireless maps.
- wireless maps, that data, be included in the map that is produced by the CPUC.
- And the data on the maps... Thank you. They would be true to form.
Summary:
The Assembly Communications and Conveyance Committee heard AB 470 by Assembly Member McKinnor, a bill to modernize California’s carrier-of-last-resort rules for voice telephone service and create a process for carriers to transition away from obsolete copper networks in favor of advanced telecommunications infrastructure. The author and supporters said the bill is aimed at preserving reliable voice and 911 access while encouraging private investment in fiber and other modern networks, and emphasized that it is not a broadband bill. Support came from AT&T, business groups, and a former Cal OES director, who argued the bill provides a careful, phased modernization with CPUC oversight and increased public-safety investment requirements.
Opposition came from TURN, CWA District 9, digital equity organizations, labor groups, and several local governments and county representatives. Critics raised concerns about the adequacy of the mapping process, reliance on broadband and wireless coverage data, the lack of on-the-ground verification, the challenge process, possible loss of Lifeline protections, and the impact on workers and union jobs. They also argued the bill could allow carriers to reduce universal-service obligations without enough safeguards for rural and vulnerable customers.
Committee members discussed those concerns at length, especially the map-making process, the challenge procedure, and whether the bill sufficiently protects workers and customers who could be left behind. The author said the bill includes a 10-year backstop if service is lost, a CPUC-led process, and a three-to-one fiber buildout requirement tied to relinquishment, and expressed willingness to continue working with labor on workforce language. The committee ultimately passed AB 470 on a 7-0 due pass vote.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
89th Legislative Session - Second Called Session Aug 20th, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So the data used for this map is more than five years old now. And so the way it stands now.
- map does.
- Can you remind us of what data was used to redraw this map?
- Data was used to draw the map in terms of the change in the number of populations.
- map...
Keywords:
district composition, congressional election, Texas, legislature, voting districts, 997, house, all
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Congressional Redistricting, Select Aug 1st, 2025
Congressional Redistricting, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- Under this map, the data shows it's Black CVAP 50.81%. It's an increase of 11.82%.
- The reality is this map is based on data, population numbers, and voter trends, and numbers don't lie
- Let litigation around the current maps conclude and draw new districts after new census data that reflect
- Bringing these maps into existence. In 2021, was racial data considered as a data point?
- Do you think that is racial data that was used to help develop these maps?
Bills:
HB4
Keywords:
district composition, congressional election, Texas, legislature, voting districts, 997, house, all
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
April 28, 2026 - 12:05 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- This data, however, is not broken down to the granular level needed to draw a map.
- map.
- The map is one of the most compact districts that was in that map carried over to this map.
- Chair, and I'd like to redirect to some more of the map drawing decision-making as far as data use.
- There is no new consensus or census data and no court order requiring new maps.
Summary:
The Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting met to consider HB 1D, which would establish Florida’s congressional districts using the governor’s proposed map, EOG PCRP 26. Representative Persons-Mulicka briefly introduced the bill, and Jason Jazeel and Jason Pareda of the governor’s office presented the legal rationale and map details. Jazeel argued that mid-cycle congressional redistricting is not prohibited, that the governor’s position is to draw districts without considering race, and that federal equal-protection principles should control over state race-based redistricting provisions. Pareda said he drew the map alone using 2020 census data and census blocks, while also considering population growth estimates, traditional redistricting criteria, and county/city boundaries where feasible.
Pareda described the map as race-neutral and said it keeps 48 counties whole, 382 cities whole, and has a boundary-analysis score of about 85.7%. He walked through regional changes, including major revisions in South Florida, adjustments in Central Florida, and changes in the Tampa Bay area, explaining that population shifts and the need for exact congressional population equality drove many of the district configurations. Members questioned the timing of the special session, the use of 2020 census data versus newer population estimates, the role of the legislature versus the governor, the legal basis for mid-decade redistricting, and whether the map complies with the Voting Rights Act and Fair Districts amendments. Motions to place witnesses under oath and to extend the committee meeting by 30 minutes both failed.
During public testimony, every speaker who was heard opposed the map. Commenters argued that the proposal was a partisan power grab, would reduce Democratic and minority representation, and violated the Florida Constitution and voting rights protections. Several speakers criticized the short notice and lack of public input, while others said the map would confuse voters or split communities. The chair repeatedly reminded attendees to maintain decorum and limited each speaker to about one minute.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill will prohibit the sharing of the data with a third party if the data is going to be used to
- Our public safety, our law enforcement can use this data, but to be able to sell this data and also to
- When you say private entity, do you mean the party collecting the data or the party whose data is being
- This data can be shared.
- , but there may be other vendors or brokers that do sell this data. this data, but there may be other
Keywords:
cannabis, cannabis packaging, cannabis labeling, cannabis regulation, Cannabis Control Division, adulterated cannabis, artificial color additive, food dye, youth appeal, minor appeal, child-resistant packaging, black-and-white packaging, edibles, product labeling, consumer protection, marijuana, hemp, dispensary, licensed cannabis business, cannabis manufacturer
TX
Texas 89th 1st C.S.
Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting Jul 29th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- But that same 2020 data is what would be used to redraw any maps if we are to do so.
- maps.
- Redrawing maps without updated census data undermines the principles of equal representation guaranteed
- I oppose redistricting Texas maps based on ideologies instead of data.
- But by that I mean the same census data that we would be relying upon for any map that was considered
Summary:
The Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting met virtually for its West Texas regional hearing, established a quorum, and explained that the hearing was part of a series of statewide information-gathering sessions before any map was filed. The chair outlined the Zoom procedures, the two-minute testimony limit, and the availability of written comments through the committee’s public portal. Senators also discussed the logistics and transparency of the process, including the expectation that any proposed map or amendment would be made public once filed and that additional hearings would follow.
Senator Blanco, whose district includes West Texas and the border region, said the area’s communities of interest should be kept together and warned against repeating the loss of representation that followed the last redistricting cycle. Senators Alvarado, Hinojosa, Miles, and others debated the value of virtual hearings versus in-person hearings, the number of people who had testified, and whether the committee could subpoena witnesses after the regional hearings ended. The chair said he was awaiting legal guidance and would consider a subpoena motion at a formal meeting the next day. A lengthy exchange also occurred over the tone of public testimony and the chair’s view that some comments directed at Republicans and the president had been offensive or historically inaccurate.
Invited witnesses and public commenters largely opposed mid-decade redistricting and argued that any new map should reflect population growth, especially among Latino and other minority communities, and comply with the Voting Rights Act. Nina Perales of MALDEF said the hearings were not meaningful without a draft map and testified that Texas has a long history of discriminatory redistricting; senators questioned her about litigation, DOJ’s July 7 letter, and the 2021 congressional map. Tania Chavez Camacho, Luis Figueroa, and several El Paso residents emphasized that maps should preserve communities of interest, avoid cracking and packing, and be transparent and participatory. A smaller number of witnesses supported redistricting, including one El Paso resident who said the current districting leaves the area underrepresented and another who argued that some communities want to return to a map closer to the earlier District 16 configuration. Several witnesses also criticized the DOJ letter as inconsistent with the state’s position that the 2021 maps were drawn race-blind, while others said the current process was too rushed and lacked sufficient public input.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting Jul 29th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- or maps.
- That same 2020 data is what would be used to redraw any maps if we are to do so.
- Redrawing maps without updated census data undermines the principles of equal representation guaranteed
- I oppose redistricting Texas maps based on ideologies instead of data.
- Be relying upon for any map that was considered in this special session is the same census data upon
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Congressional Redistricting, Select Jul 28th, 2025
Congressional Redistricting, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- No maps or other data have been shared with the public for meaningful consideration.
- and others have that data in order to draw maps.
- Is there a way to draw a map that's not based on census data?
- We don't even have any new census data to support these maps.
- Putting aside what is normal, what data are you using for these mid-decade maps?
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Environment and Natural Resources Jan 14th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I WILL TAKE A MINUTE TO GET MORE DETAILED INTO THE B MAPS.
- A STORY MAP LINK THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO THIS PAGE WHICH WILL APPLY FOR MOST ALL B MAPS B MAPS A STORY
- MAP LINK THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO THIS PAGE WHICH WILL APPLY FOR MOST ALL B MAPS PARTICULARLY WHERE WE
- THAT WOULD MEET TO B MAP STANDARDS?
- SO WE CAN HAVE IT IN ONE CENTRALIZED LOCATION ON A MAP.
MN
MN