New Advocates' Memos Summarize Local Authority and Preemption to Inform Policy Efforts
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. State preemption laws limit or prohibit local policymaking in different areas. In addition to an overview of how local authority operates in these states, these documents provide examples of important policies that are preempted (i.e., prohibited), emergency powers that may be available to local officials, and ways in which advocates may expand their local authority through repeal of existing preemption and/or voter-initiated ballot measures.
Take a look at memos in these states:
