Civic Engagement

Focus of Civic Engagement Department

• Addressing Voter Empowerment
• Increasing public awareness and civic participation in Federal, State, and Local Agencies
• Ensuring Equal Representation
  • Redistricting
  • Census
  • Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act (successfully accomplished in 2006)

Goals for Voter Empowerment

• Ensuring Voter Empowerment - providing awareness, training, and programmatic support to ensure registration, education, and election protection.
• Ensuring Voters' Constitutional rights are protected - safeguarding the Constitutional right to vote, and to have one's vote protected and counted
• Monitoring Redistricting and Census - ensuring fair and proportional elected representation
• Promoting ballot initiatives to address social justice issues