[173472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Correspondence to the FCC re: preemption of local government
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Fri Jul 25 02:01:03 2014
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:00:48 -0700
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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I agree 100%. If a municipality wants to provide service to its
citizens and contracts it out, nothing prevents that.
On 7/24/2014 6:17 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The question posed is whether or not a state can control where a local
>> governmental agencies can provide service.
> Hi Roy,
>
> If the answer is anything other than, "of course they can," then I
> really want to read the judge's opinion. There are no shortage of
> examples of one locality providing services to another (it happens all
> the time with water systems) but I've not heard of such happening
> contrary to the wishes of the respective state government.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
>
