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Ventura County-based assemblywoman says she'll run for new district created by redistricting.

KCLU News
A Thousand Oaks based assemblywoman has announced plans to run for a new assembly district created by redistricting.

Thousand Oaks-based district will lose Oxnard, Port Hueneme but gain chunks of Los Angeles County.

The final California Citizens Redistricting Commission maps are impacting a number of state and congressional seats on the Central and South Coasts.

One current legislator is wasting no time in announcing that she will run for the modified version of her current seat. Democratic Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin of Thousand Oaks currently represents the 44th District, which includes much of Ventura County and a slice of Los Angeles County.

Irwin is running next year for the new 42nd Assembly District, which includes Thousand Oaks, Camarillo, Moorpark, Westlake Village, and parts of Ventura County. But, it also includes Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Pacific Palisades and other parts of L.A. County.

The new district doesn’t include Oxnard and Port Hueneme, which will join Ventura in the 38th Assembly District.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.