Minnesota Repeals Municipal Broadband Restrictions
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/another-us-state-repeals-law-tha... Minnesota this week eliminated two laws that made it harder for cities and towns to build their own broadband networks. The state-imposed restrictions were repealed in an omnibus commerce policy bill signed on Tuesday by Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat. .... -- =============================================== David Farmer Email:farmer@umn.edu Networking & Telecommunication Services Office of Information Technology University of Minnesota 2218 University Ave SE Phone: 612-626-0815 Minneapolis, MN 55414-3029 Cell: 612-812-9952 ===============================================
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On 2024-05-24 14:32, Asp, David wrote:
Minnesota Strikes Down Preemption Laws Blocking Municipal Broadband | Welcome to Community Networks (communitynets.org) <https://communitynets.org/content/minnesota-strikes-down-preemption-laws-blocking-municipal-broadband>
The scary part of this is the "where it cannot agree with the owner on price, it may acquire an existing plant by condemnation." In other words, a city can use eminent domain to take a private company's network. There is, AFAIK, no statutory restrictions limiting this to cases where the private company is e.g. abandoning/neglecting traditional telephone service. And with the unfortunate Kelo v. City of New London SCOTUS decision, cities' eminent domain power is incredibly broad: they can take private property and give it to another private entity. Hopefully this is not abused. -- Richard
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 3:21 PM Richard Laager < 0000001e0910bbd6-dmarc-request@lists.iphouse.net> wrote:
On 2024-05-24 14:32, Asp, David wrote:
Minnesota Strikes Down Preemption Laws Blocking Municipal Broadband | Welcome to Community Networks (communitynets.org) <https://communitynets.org/content/minnesota-strikes-down-preemption-laws-blocking-municipal-broadband>
The scary part of this is the "where it cannot agree with the owner on price, it may acquire an existing plant by condemnation." In other words, a city can use eminent domain to take a private company's network. There is, AFAIK, no statutory restrictions limiting this to cases where the private company is e.g. abandoning/neglecting traditional telephone service. And with the unfortunate Kelo v. City of New London SCOTUS decision, cities' eminent domain power is incredibly broad: they can take private property and give it to another private entity. Hopefully this is not abused.
Minnesota Law seems to deal with at least some of the issues of Kelo v. City of New London; https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=eminentdomain -- =============================================== David Farmer Email:farmer@umn.edu Networking & Telecommunication Services Office of Information Technology University of Minnesota 2218 University Ave SE Phone: 612-626-0815 Minneapolis, MN 55414-3029 Cell: 612-812-9952 ===============================================
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