The 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 More
During the 2022 state legislative session Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC) will publish a weekly digest summarizing notable abusive preemption bills and their progress through session.
Read More
The 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 More
Each month, a member of our Research Cohort will explore a different topic and its connection to preemption. Here, Professor Lori Riverstone-Newell kicks things off by examining three different strategies local leaders have relied upon to resist abusive state preemption: dissent, litigation, and defiance.
Read More
State lawmakers who are abusing preemption haven’t slowed their efforts to take power away from local communities this year – LSSC’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 More
This month the Local Solutions Support Center launched new social media platforms so we can more consistently share news, insight, and analysis of the ways that preemption is being abused in state legislatures across the country.
Read More
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.
Read More
LSSC is are compiling issue-specific preemption guides that serve as a one-stop-shop for the best high-level resources associated with individual issue areas commonly preempted.
Read More
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 More
The 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 More
In 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 More
Now 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 More
As LSSC looks ahead to 2022, we intend to support our growing team with the addition of two new consulting positions: a State Campaign Consultant and a Legislative Tracking Consultant.
Read More
Only 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 More
A 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 More
The 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 More
In 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 More
This 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 More
This 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 More