The congressional and state legislative districts we currently have in Rockland may not remain the same. Four assembly districts represent various portions of the county, and they all include various towns and portions of Orange County. Rockland legislator from Ramapo Aron Weider earlier this month told the New York Independent Redistricting Commission that they should consider re-configuring the districts to make Albany representation for Ramapo residents fairer…
Rockland Legislator Minority Leader Lon Hofstein says the same could happen here within the county. Hofstein’s area is District 5, parts of Ramapo and Clarkstown, but he thinks it’s better for legislative districts to cross town lines…
Rockland State Senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick also has a small portion of Westchester, specifically the town of Ossining. Reichlin-Melnick says the districts need to be redrawn if representation among districts doesn’t match…
Rockland Assemblyman Mike Lawler says it’s important to keep communities whole…
The commission features Democrats and Republicans appointed by leaders in the state Legislature. Once the summer’s public hearings conclude the commission will submit new proposed maps by January first, and then the Legislature can either accept their recommendations, re-draw them differently, or leave them as-is. The data is based on the 2020 census, in which New York state lost one congressional seat. That will take effect in 2022. The last re-districting took place in 2014.