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.

Periodically throughout the pandemic the Local Solutions Support Center published a weekly news digest covering the conflicts between state and local governments over public health protections.

Determining whether local governments have authority to implement local tenant protections, particularly in the face of potential state preemption, remains a challenge.

A new white paper from LSSC explores in more detail how some state legislatures are using preemption to undermine local control of police budgeting, accountability, and management.

This new report highlights how state lawmakers in the Midwest have abused preemption to impede progress on a variety of issues that would improve the economic security and well-being of residents. 

The Local Solutions Support Center’s (LSSC) report explores 2021 legislative activity in more detail. Overall in the session, LSSC tracked over 400 preemption bills – more than two times the number of bills tracked during the 2019 session.

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.

This fact sheet, produced in partnership with ChangeLab Solutions, summarizes this emerging threat to state and local public health authority and identifies some of the possible outcomes.

The Local Solutions Support Center has compiled short memos summarizing the nature and scope of local authority in each state.

This report reveals how the growing abuse of preemption over the last decade forced many municipalities to start from behind when responding to the pandemic, and highlights the issue areas advocates are preparing to defend from state interference in the months ahead.

We examine the use and merits of the patchwork argument across 10 policy areas­ and review the evidence around the patchwork argument’s merits.

This resource takes a look at how states and cities responded to the pandemic.

14 authors were tasked with working as advocate-researcher co-authors to produce short articles highlighting recent research findings, emerging issues, and data and research needs across seven policy fields.

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.

This document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in West Virginia. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.

This document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Virginia. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.

This document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Texas. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.

This document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Tennessee. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.

This document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Pennsylvania. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.

This document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in North Carolina. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.