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.
Read MorePreemption of municipal broadband is complicated – even states that have a concise statute to bar telecommunications services are complicated by questions about whether the definition of such services includes broadband.
Read MoreThis guide highlights the scale of the broadband problem (before and during the pandemic) and important policies that local governments can consider in the short and long-term to increase access to broadband.
Read MoreIn this white paper, we document how Juul has flooded statehouses with lobbyists to advance T-21 legislation – bills to raise the purchase age of tobacco to 21, but that include poison pill measures preempting local governments from further regulating tobacco products.
Read MoreBetween January and June 2019, state legislatures across the nation continued a troubling trend of passing more laws forbidding or “preempting” local control over a large and growing set of public health, economic, environmental, and social justice policy solutions.
Read MoreWhen preemption is used to protect profits rather than people, to undermine progress, and to undo cities and counties’ efforts to improve the safety of their residents— including their LGBT residents—it is a dangerous threat to equality for all.
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