This fact sheet provides an overview of state and local government authority to regulate and potentially require vaccination.
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As the definition of “public health” expands, so could the ability of public health agencies and officials to address the SDOH and combat a greater variety of public ills.
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This resource from ChangeLab Solutions and the Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC) provides advocates with the research and data they need to document the harmful consequences of preemption and advocate for repealing inequitable preemption laws.
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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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As you plan for 2021 state legislative sessions, please be aware of the following anti-protest policy trends that may impact local authority and communities’ ability to exercise local democracy.
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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.
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One chapter in the resource, “Preemption, Public Health, and Equity in the Time of COVID-19,” was written by Kim Haddow of Local Solutions Support Center; Derek Carr of ChangeLab Solutions; Benjamin D. Winig of ThinkForward Strategies; and Sabrina Adler of ChangeLab Solutions.
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Preemption 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.
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This guide from the Local Solutions Support Center and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance – The Digital Divide – 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. It also explains why efforts to expand broadband must center racial equity in order to be effective.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads and states reopen, local elected officials and advocates are asking what power they have to help their communities across a range of policies, including those that respond to pressing housing and homelessness needs. This model resolution is geared towards helping local officials and advocates push their legislature and governor toward housing solutions.
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This message guide will help you explain how existing and new state preemption has left local governments and people vulnerable to the pandemic, worsened inequities, and weakened efforts to protect public health. It also outlines what must be done to protect local democracy.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads and states reopen, local elected officials and advocates are asking what power they have to help their communities across a range of policies, including housing and homelessness needs, worker needs, and broadband access. Local advocates and officials could save crucial time as they determine what they can do locally if their state legislature or governor asserted and clarified local authority pertaining to key policies around housing, worker protection, and broadband access. This model resolution is geared towards helping local officials and advocates push their legislature and governor to do just that.
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As part of the Local Solutions Support Center’s ongoing efforts to help local leaders understand and deploy their authority to address their communities’ needs, we have produced this memo outlining legal possibilities and prohibitions.
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As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, local elected officials and advocates alike are asking what they can do for their communities across a range of policies — including to ensure that everyone has broadband Internet access available.
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As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, local elected officials and advocates alike are asking what they can do for their communities across a range of policies—including those that respond to our pressing housing and homelessness needs.
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As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, local elected officials and advocates are asking what they can do for their communities. This brief guide can help you determine whether your community has the authority it needs to adopt a particular policy. This guide is not intended to be legal advice; rather it aims to encourage communities, city attorneys, and advocates to examine the possibilities for creative local action.
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LSSC is partnering with the National League of Cities to publish Principles of Home Rule for the 21st Century. This groundbreaking new framework lays out a vision for rebalancing state and local relations, and provides model constitutional language to encourage legal reform. But the Principles are just the beginning of a longer-term conversation necessary to ensure Americans can fully participate in local democracy, and that cities are truly equipped to advance innovative and tailor-made solutions to local problems.
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In a new white paper by Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC) and True North Research, Evan Vorpahl and Lisa Graves 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.
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