Placentia sued over council redistricting plan

A Latino civil rights organization filed a lawsuit against Placentia Friday, saying the city breached an agreement to switch from its at-large City Council elections to district-based elections.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, MALDEF, filed the complaint in Orange County Superior Court. Placentia Mayor Chad Wanke said late Friday that he had not seen the lawsuit, but, he added, the city has been working to create a new map that divides it into five distric