During the 2022 state legislative session Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC) published a weekly digest summarizing notable abusive preemption bills and their progress through session.
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During the 2022 state legislative session Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC) publishes a weekly digest summarizing notable abusive preemption bills and their progress through session.
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This polling from the African-American Research Collaborative found that it is most helpful to engage voters through a policy position and then transition to a discussion of how to influence state government to make positive change.
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This snapshot identifies states where abusive preemption bills have been enacted or are pending in 2021. In some states, multiple bills addressing the same issues have been introduced, but that is not reflected in this data.
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The Local Solutions Support Center has compiled short memos summarizing the nature and scope of local authority in each state.
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In recent years the Local Solutions Support Center has partnered repeatedly with The Campaign Workshop to create message-tested digital advertising toolkits for local partners.
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A new report, Preempting Progress, examines how state interference in local policymaking prevents people of color, women, and low-income workers from making ends meet in the South.
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These new documents provide a summary of local authority and preemption in several key states that can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level. State preemption laws limit or prohibit local policymaking in different areas.
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This White Paper considers the consequences of decreasing state aid to cities and offers some suggestions for policies that would allow municipalities to better carry out their important responsibilities as engines of local democracy.
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This groundbreaking new framework lays out a vision for rebalancing state and local relations, and provides model constitutional language to encourage legal reform.
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This white paper captures how defending local democracy now includes a growing focus on recovering lost local authority and summarizes key lessons learned so far in the fight to repeal existing preemption.
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This webinar features the results of research about preemption and home rule, published in November 2019.
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LSSC helps to coordinate and create opportunities to counter the increasing state abuse of preemption and working to strengthen local democracies so they have they have the authority they need to protect and promote the health and safety of their residents.
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This model ordinance from Local Maryland encourages local governments to pass laws that support healthy families, a clean environment and good jobs.
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All preemption laws are in tension with local democracy, but punitive preemption is especially threatening. Many state preemption laws are vague around the edges; some may violate the state’s constitution or legal doctrines.
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This Article describes this politics by way of assessing the nature of—and reasons for—the hostility to city lawmaking. It also provides a current accounting of state preemptive legislation and assesses the cities’ potential legal and political defenses.
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This Essay examines the spread of the new preemption and explores the legal doctrines available to local governments for challenging it.
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This fact sheet details two straightforward approaches that can be pursued through ballot initiatives or statewide legislation to do so.
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Federal preemption is the concept that ‘federal law preempts contrary state law.’
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This memorandum provides an overview of some substantive and procedural constraints on the latitude of state legislatures to limit local authority and autonomy.
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