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Proposition 50: Redistricting

Proposition 50: Authorizes temporary changes to congressional district maps in Response to Texas's partisan redistricting. Legislative Statute. Additional Titles: The Election Rigging Response Act (2025-26 ACA 8) Use of Legislative Congressional Redistricting Map Amendment Summary

This measure was placed on the ballot by the State Legislature, see ...

November 4, 2025 Special Election

2025 Qualified Statewide Ballot Measure Proposition Endorsements Title Yes votes No votes Proposition 50 - Authorizes Temporary Changes to Congressional District Maps in Response to Texas' Partisan Redistricting 7,453,339 or 64.4% 4,116,998 or 35.6% Final votes counts are posted once the CA Secretary of State has certified the results, which can take up to...

One Million Pages and Counting!

May 5, 2026
Paul D King

As we approach summer, the IGS LoCAL Digitization Project is reaching a series of significant milestones. In just two years, the project has grown into a substantial digital collection, representing hundreds of cities and counties and capturing decades of local policy decisions. Few comparable archives of local government materials exist at this scale in a fully accessible digital format.

We officially reached our one millionth page digitized in March 2026! This page, from the...

Library

The IGS Library is one of the nation’s major collections in public administration, public affairs, and public policy. The library holds more than 400,000 volumes and is a depository for California local government documents.

Special Collections

The library is home to several special collections related to political campaigns, elections, and public policy.

Berman/D'Agostino Redistricting and Political Campaign Materials, 1968-2000 Historical records and materials on shelf

The collection consists of redistricting maps, campaign literature and related political...

Reading the Covers: Community and Change in Local Government Documents

April 10, 2026
Paul D King
Reading the Covers: Community and Change in Local Government Documents

As we digitize local government documents, certain cover designs begin to stand out. Many public documents follow a familiar pattern of cover imagery: text-heavy, highly formal, and primarily functional. However, in many documents produced after the late 1960’s, a different visual approach emerges: Children’s drawings, bright colors, scenes of families and neighborhoods, and other imagery that feel less formal and more approachable.

By the late 1960s, public attitudes...

November 3, 2020 Ballot Prop. 16

Proposition 16: Restoring Affirmative Action Official Results

Available once the California Secretary of State has certified the election. This can take up to 3 weeks or more.

Yes votes: 7,217,064 (42.8%)

No votes: 9,655,595 (57.2%)

Proposition 16 would repeal Proposition 209 (1996) by permitting state and local entities to consider race, sex, color, ethnicity, and national origin in public education, public employment, and public contracting to the extent allowed under federal and state law.

Voter Information...

Undocumented Immigrants in California: Evidence from Local Government Publications

February 26, 2026
Paul King
Undocumented Immigrants in California: Evidence from Local Government Publications

Undocumented immigration is among the most debated public policy issues in the United States. Estimates[1] from the Pew Research Center place the undocumented population at approximately 14 million nationwide as of 2023. California has long been central to discussions around undocumented...

California wildfires: documents in the California Local Government Documents digitization collection

June 2, 2025
Paul King
Hazard mitigation report for the East Bay fire in the Oakland-Berkeley hills The East Bay hills fire ...

California Local Government Pamphlets: Early Municipal Governance in Practice

January 9, 2026
Paul King

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As part of the California Local Government Documents Digitization Project, the IGS Library processed California Local Government Pamphlets: Early Municipal Governance in Practice in 2024, a compiled volume of four early twentieth-...