LSSC’s latest report, Protecting Local Democracy: 2023 Legislative Session Overview, explores all the preemption trends that played out in states across the country this past year. The report also highlights what issues advocates are most concerned about as we head into 2024 – from an uptick in efforts to remove duly elected prosecutors from office, to how preemption is abused to undermine local election authority.
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 LSSC’s full report here.
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