Unique among national organizations, NCSL’s sterling reputation for nonpartisanship and its policy of confidentiality in communications with its members makes the conference the ideal organization to produce this report…This report relies foremost on notes from interviews with policy staff, and secondarily on both public and private documentation provided to NCSL by staff during the research process. So when a researcher asks them to go on the record about the details of their redistricting process, people are naturally nervous. The nonpartisan legislative staff who make up the backbone of many states’ redistricting efforts, understandably, seek to avoid being subpoenaed and dragged into court whenever possible. That’s understandable when so many states’ maps are challenged in court. Redistricting breeds suspicion and uncertainty. The report explains why the NCSL is uniquely suited to do this sort of independent analysis of an issue like prison gerrymandering and why the report’s recommendations are so important:
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) is a strictly bipartisan organization devoted to supporting state legislatures, fostering cooperation between states, and representing state legislatures where federal issues impinge on their function.
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