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Preemption of Local Election Administration – Supplemental Materials
Preemption of Local Election Administration – Supplemental Materials

In this document, a supplement to our white paper from Columbia Law Professor Richard Briffault, we outline what local election administration involves, common preemption practices for local election authority, and how preemption of this authority threatens democracy.

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Adam PolaskiAugust 26, 2022
2022 End-of-Session Report: 'Undermining Democracy'
2022 End-of-Session Report: 'Undermining Democracy'

In this report, Undermining Democracy: How Far-Right State Lawmakers & Corporations Are Abusing Preemption to Take Power Away from People, LSSC tracks how abusive preemption has been used by state lawmakers in the 2022 legislative session.

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Adam PolaskiAugust 22, 2022
Join the LSSC Partner Network
Join the LSSC Partner Network

We love to stay in touch with advocates, attorneys, legal scholars, organizers, and more who are actively involved in the work to resist the abuse of preemption.

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Adam PolaskiAugust 1, 2022
Preemption in New Jersey: A Foundation for Locally-Led Change?
Preemption in New Jersey: A Foundation for Locally-Led Change?

The Local Solutions Support Center is excited to continue a blog series featuring our 2022 Research Cohort. Each month, a member of our Research Cohort will explore a different topic and its connection to preemption. Here, Noah Kazis explores a case study in New Jersey.

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Adam PolaskiJuly 18, 2022
Preemption of Local Election Administration – White Paper by Richard Briffault
Preemption of Local Election Administration – White Paper by Richard Briffault

As 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.

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Adam PolaskiJuly 7, 2022
New Resource: Connecting the Dots – How to Message the Abuse of State Preemption
New Resource: Connecting the Dots – How to Message the Abuse of State Preemption

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.

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Adam PolaskiJune 22, 2022
Tracking Abuse of Preemption Legislation: 2022 Legislative Session
Tracking Abuse of Preemption Legislation: 2022 Legislative Session

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.

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Adam PolaskiJune 1, 2022
New Communication Toolkit for Organizers Tackles Preemption of Public Health Authority
New Communication Toolkit for Organizers Tackles Preemption of Public Health Authority

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.

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Adam PolaskiMay 18, 2022
Dissent, Litigation & Defiance: Local Leaders Resist Abusive Preemption
Dissent, Litigation & Defiance: Local Leaders Resist Abusive Preemption

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.

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Adam PolaskiMay 16, 2022
LSSC's 2022 Mid-Session Overview Highlights This Year's Biggest Preemption Trends
LSSC's 2022 Mid-Session Overview Highlights This Year's Biggest Preemption Trends

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.

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Adam PolaskiMay 16, 2022
Follow Local Solutions Support Center on Social Media!
Follow Local Solutions Support Center on Social Media!

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.

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Adam PolaskiApril 19, 2022
2022 Update to Research on Preemption, Health, and Equity
2022 Update to Research on Preemption, Health, and Equity

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.

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Adam PolaskiApril 6, 2022
New: Issue-Specific Preemption Guides
New: Issue-Specific Preemption Guides

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.

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Adam PolaskiApril 6, 2022
New Resource: 2021 – An Unprecedented Year for Abusive Preemption
New Resource: 2021 – An Unprecedented Year for Abusive Preemption

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.

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Adam PolaskiMarch 7, 2022
New Resource: Second Edition of The Local Power & Politics Review
New Resource: Second Edition of The Local Power & Politics Review

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.

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Adam PolaskiMarch 2, 2022
Updated 2022 Resource Provides Model for Local Tenant Protection Ordinances
Updated 2022 Resource Provides Model for Local Tenant Protection Ordinances

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.

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Adam PolaskiFebruary 14, 2022
At a Glance: Preemption and the Pandemic – The Variant Version
At a Glance: Preemption and the Pandemic – The Variant Version

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.

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Adam PolaskiDecember 6, 2021
Preempting Police Reform: A Roadblock to Social Justice
Preempting Police Reform: A Roadblock to Social Justice

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.

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Adam PolaskiOctober 25, 2021
New Report Explores Abuse of Preemption by Midwest Legislatures
New Report Explores Abuse of Preemption by Midwest Legislatures

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.

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Adam PolaskiOctober 18, 2021
A Session Like No Other: An Overview of 2021’s Unprecedented Wave of State Preemption Bills
A Session Like No Other: An Overview of 2021’s Unprecedented Wave of State Preemption Bills

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.

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Adam PolaskiJuly 27, 2021
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