Local communities are losing the power to make their own decisions. Over the past decade, instead of allowing local officials to enact policies that best address local needs, state legislatures have given themselves the power to set local safety, health, economic, and even municipal voting laws. But there is a way to stop the erosion of local decision making. We can counter this abuse of state preemption by updating home rule.
Read MoreAs 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 what local election administration involves and how it threatens democracy.
Read MoreThis guide reflects the latest messaging for how to talk about the abuse of state preemption and how many elected officials use preemption to entrench inequities and take power away from people and communities.
Read MoreWe Decide TN is a coalition of groups from across TN, brought together to empower local communities against state interference.
Read MoreDuring the 2022 state legislative session Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC) published a weekly digest summarizing notable abusive preemption bills and their progress through session.
Read MoreThe Local Solutions Support Center has designed a toolkit to help organizers understand what public health authority preemption looks like and how to talk about it in a way that’s both accessible to broader audiences, and effective.
Read MoreSSC’s new 2022 Mid-Session report looks at how state elected officials are continuing to undermine local authority on topics ranging from educational curriculum to voting rights to labor laws to LGBTQ equality.
Read MoreIn the name of personal responsibility, individual freedom, the free market, and partisanship, many states are preventing local leaders from protecting workers, low-income families, public health, the environment, among others, while failing to do so themselves. What is a locality to do?
Read MoreThis short memo summarizes the nature and scope of local authority in Montana.
Read MoreThis short memo summarizes the nature and scope of local authority in Nebraska.
Read MoreThis short memo summarizes the nature and scope of local authority in Nevada.
Read MoreThis short memo summarizes the nature and scope of local authority in New Hampshire.
Read MoreThis short memo summarizes the nature and scope of local authority in New Jersey.
Read MoreThis short memo summarizes the nature and scope of local authority in New Mexico.
Read MoreThis short memo summarizes the nature and scope of local authority in New York.
Read MoreThis short memo summarizes the nature and scope of local authority in North Carolina.
Read MoreThis short memo summarizes the nature and scope of local authority in North Dakota.
Read MoreThis short memo summarizes the nature and scope of local authority in Ohio.
Read MoreThis short memo summarizes the nature and scope of local authority in Oklahoma.
Read MoreThis short memo summarizes the nature and scope of local authority in Oregon.
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