This week the Local Solutions Support Center published a new resource that takes a look back at 2021, an unprecedented year for abusive preemption. It examines the landscape for preemption and highlights what the LSSC team accomplished last year.
Read MoreThe second edition of the Local Power & Politics Review is now live and features a series of articles that explore how some states preempted local authority across a host of issues during the pandemic.
Read MoreIn response to the ongoing need to protect tenants during COVID 19 and the related economic uncertainty, LSSC is releasing a updated memo and model tenant protection ordinance that outlines what local governments should consider when discussing how they can protect tenants, and the state law and policy considerations to examine in order to find the best path forward.
Read MoreNow that the Delta variant’s rapid spread has again sparked showdowns over masking orders, school and business closings and vaccine passports between state and local governments nationwide, LSSC has reprised this once-a-week recap.
Read MoreOnly a handful of states have targeted municipal police reform, but left unchecked, such preemption strategies will likely spread to other states. And without scrutiny, some states will feel emboldened to encroach further on municipal ability to control and reform their police departments.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreThe Local Solutions Support Center’s (LSSC) report “A Session Like No Other” explores the 2021 legislative session, during which Republican-led state legislatures unleashed a wave of preemption bills blocking, removing, or penalizing local authority – a direct response to the pandemic, the growing movement for racial justice, and the presidential election.
Read MoreIn one-hour sessions offered each month this summer, you will be able to have an interactive discussion and learn about how the LSSC can help to advance your work and build capacity.
Read MoreThis year, state lawmakers introduced a history making number of preemption laws that limit local lawmaking, weaken local democracy, and block local policies intended to advance economic and racial inequity. Here is a snapshot, a still frame of where legislative activity on some policies stand as of Monday, April 26, 2021.
Read MoreThis fact sheet from Local Solutions Support Center and Public Rights Project provides an overview of Housing Preemption in Indiana.
Read More“Conflict between state and local governments has cost lives, delayed effective responses, and created confusion that continues to undermine public health efforts.”
Read MoreThe Local Solutions Support Center has compiled short memos summarizing the nature and scope of local authority in each state. For city attorneys, advocates, and policymakers, these memos can offer a sense of what local policies might be possible in their state and a jumping off point for additional research.
Read MoreThis fact sheet summarizes this emerging threat to state and local public health authority and identifies some of the possible outcomes.
Read MoreUnder the Cover of COVID: A Survey of 2020-2021 State Preemption Trends delves into the dangerous intersection of preemption and the pandemic – specifically, how a growing use of state interference over the last decade meant that many communities were already forced to start from behind in responding to COVID-19.
Read MoreCOVID & efforts to confront racial injustice and white supremacy highlight the urgent need to center the voices of the people hurt most by preemption
Read MoreThis report investigates arguments that justify state preemption of local lawmaking on the basis that local laws produce a harmful “patchwork” of regulations within a state. We examine the use and merits of the patchwork argument across 10 policy areas.
Read MoreThere has already been significant differences between state and local governments over the imposition of mandatory shelter in place orders, the need for social distancing and the definition of “essential” and “non- essential” businesses and workers. This resource takes a look at how states and cities are responding to the pandemic.
Read MoreIn this report, 14 authors worked as advocate-researcher co-authors to produce short articles highlighting recent research findings, emerging issues, and data and research needs across seven policy fields: Public Health; Local Fiscal Authority; Labor Policy; Environmental Policy; Civil Rights and Discrimination; Housing Policy; and Emerging Technologies.
Read MoreThis model tenant protection ordinance provides essential terms that local governments should consider adopting to respond in their communities.
Read MoreAs advocates plan for the 2021 legislative sessions, it will be important to identify and counter new efforts to undermine the power and vision of black communities and allies at the local level.
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