It verifies documents, sure, but documents can be stolen.So what is the point of this measure in Fremont, or ordinances that may follow elsewhere?
Yet in Washington Township and elsewhere, such ordinances are meeting with resistance from people who have always regarded private property as just that: private.
In Indiana, the "religious freedom" bill, as a statewide bill, supersedes local anti-discrimination ordinances in Indianapolis and elsewhere, so in that state it does have a major impact.
There have been lawsuits, "size acceptance" talks, and a current campaign by a fat woman for bigger seat belts in cars, as well as the recent pushes in San Francisco and elsewhere to pass ordinances banning discrimination based on a person's size.
And in Atlanta, a city councilman created a stir this month when he proposed an amendment to the city's indecency laws that would criminalize sagging, an "epidemic" that is quickly becoming a "major concern" in Atlanta and elsewhere, according to the ordinance.
Many municipalities around the state and elsewhere are using these for developing local ordinances, he said.
But the new ordinance breaks ground not just by offering higher wages than elsewhere, but by obliging all private-sector employers to join in.
Croix said 14 were dismissed based on advice from the city attorney's office that other laws took precedence over the ordinance, 12 others remained under review and one was referred elsewhere and apparently ended without action.
In Lake County, voters in a referendum backed an ordinance that bans outdoor marijuana cultivation in populated areas, limits plant density elsewhere and caps indoor grows.
Prevailing late Tuesday was a referendum on a county ordinance that would ban outdoor grows in populated areas and limit them elsewhere.
