Congress to City Hall
Sourced, dated rundowns of new U.S. AI laws, bills, ordinances, and court action — every claim linked back to the live map.
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8 AI policy moves you should know about — week of October 5, 2026
California signs two landmark worker-protection AI laws on the same day, Prince William County ends by-right data center development, Minnesota's nudification ban survives a second federal injunction attempt, and moratoriums added from an Indiana county, a Columbus suburb, and a Wisconsin tribal nation.
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8 AI policy moves you should know about — week of September 28, 2026
From a tribal nation's permanent ban to confirmed county votes in Arizona and South Carolina, plus four new Florida and Iowa moratoriums and Dallas's two-year-old facial recognition program finally indexed.
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The Week Los Angeles County Shut the Door — Eight Data Center Actions in Seven Days
From the nation's most populous county to an Indiana township watching utility lines arrive, September 14–21 delivered one of the busiest weeks of local data center regulation this year.
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10 Transparency AI Laws in Force Across the U.S. (September 2026)
A sourced, plain-English rundown of 10 in-force U.S. AI rules covering transparency — each linked back to its official source and the live map.
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9 AI policy moves you should know about — week of September 7, 2026
Tucson became the first Arizona city to require a rezoning hearing before any data center opens. The Hualapai Nation passed the first tribal data center resolution west of the Mississippi. And California's 'No Robo Bosses' bill is two weeks from its sign-or-veto deadline.
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AI Law Graveyard, Edition 7: 8 AI Bills That Died (And the Lessons Buried With Them)
Bill-tracker dashboards count dead bills as live coverage. We don't. 8 vetoed, enjoined, and quietly-killed AI measures — what they would have done, who killed them, and what filled the void.
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8 AI policy moves you should know about — week of September 1, 2026
New York City banned AI in K-8 classrooms for ~600,000 students. California passed two major AI bills in one day — one targeting robo bosses, one making data centers foot the grid bill. And a wave of September moratoriums shows no sign of slowing down.
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10 Consumer Protection AI Laws in Force Across the U.S. (September 2026)
A sourced, plain-English rundown of 10 in-force U.S. AI rules covering consumer protection — each linked back to its official source and the live map.
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8 AI & data center policy moves you should know about — week of August 25, 2026
Coachella permanently bans data centers; Iowa hits five active moratoriums; Connecticut worker-monitoring law takes effect October 1.
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AI Law Graveyard, Edition 6: 8 AI Bills That Died (And the Lessons Buried With Them)
Bill-tracker dashboards count dead bills as live coverage. We don't. 8 vetoed, enjoined, and quietly-killed AI measures — what they would have done, who killed them, and what filled the void.
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7 AI policy moves you should know about — week of August 24, 2026
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10 Public Sector AI Laws in Force Across the U.S. (August 2026)
A sourced, plain-English rundown of 10 in-force U.S. AI rules covering public sector — each linked back to its official source and the live map.
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7 AI policy moves you should know about — week of August 17, 2026
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AI Law Graveyard, Edition 5: 7 AI Bills That Died (And the Lessons Buried With Them)
Bill-tracker dashboards count dead bills as live coverage. We don't. 7 vetoed, enjoined, and quietly-killed AI measures — what they would have done, who killed them, and what filled the void.
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8 AI policy moves you should know about — week of August 10, 2026
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10 Children AI Laws in Force Across the U.S. (August 2026)
A sourced, plain-English rundown of 10 in-force U.S. AI rules covering children — each linked back to its official source and the live map.
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7 AI policy moves you should know about — week of August 3, 2026
Montgomery County, MD imposed an 18-month data center moratorium, Illinois banned algorithmic social media feeds for minors, and the data center backlash spread to Flint, rural Florida, and rural Georgia.
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AI Law Graveyard, Edition 4: 8 AI Bills That Died (And the Lessons Buried With Them)
Bill-tracker dashboards count dead bills as live coverage. We don't. 8 vetoed, enjoined, and quietly-killed AI measures — what they would have done, who killed them, and what filled the void.
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10 AI policy moves you should know about — week of July 27, 2026
Nashville banned large data centers permanently, Florida became the first state to sue OpenAI, and a $10 billion copyright case landed on Google's desk.
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10 Healthcare AI Laws in Force Across the U.S. (July 2026)
A sourced, plain-English rundown of 10 in-force U.S. AI rules covering healthcare — each linked back to its official source and the live map.
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10 AI policy moves you should know about — week of July 20, 2026
Hamilton County, Tennessee confirmed what many were waiting for; New Jersey made ratepayer protection the law; and a federal lawsuit over AI deepfakes quietly expanded to 3 million victims.
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AI Law Graveyard, Edition 3: 8 AI Bills That Died (And the Lessons Buried With Them)
Bill-tracker dashboards count dead bills as live coverage. We don't. 8 vetoed, enjoined, and quietly-killed AI measures — what they would have done, who killed them, and what filled the void.
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8 AI policy moves you should know about — week of July 14, 2026
New York became the first state to impose a statewide data center moratorium; Prince George's County set the longest local moratorium in the country; and Tennessee emerged as the new epicenter of local data center resistance.
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8 AI policy moves you should know about — week of July 7, 2026
Illinois signed the nation's first frontier-AI audit law; Washington's employer-monitoring prohibition went live; and Nashville packed a council chamber with 200 speakers — all in one week.
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10 Employment AI Laws in Force Across the U.S. (July 2026)
A sourced, plain-English rundown of 10 in-force U.S. AI rules covering employment — each linked back to its official source and the live map.
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AI Law Graveyard, Edition 2: 8 AI Bills That Died (And the Lessons Buried With Them)
Bill-tracker dashboards count dead bills as live coverage. We don't. 8 vetoed, enjoined, and quietly-killed AI measures — what they would have done, who killed them, and what filled the void.
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7 AI policy moves you should know about — week of June 29, 2026
New Jersey's legislature sent three algorithmic accountability bills to the governor in a single day; California required school employees to be human; and data-center regulation pressure kept building at every level of government.
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The Data Center Moratorium Wave: 9 Towns and Counties That Hit Pause in Late June 2026
From a first-in-Texas outright ban to 18-month pauses in New Mexico and Tennessee, local governments spent the last week of June slamming the brakes on data centers. Here is the map of who said no.
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Who Pays for the AI Boom? 7 Federal and State Moves to Make Data Centers Foot Their Own Power Bill
FERC told the nation's largest grid operator to stop sticking ordinary ratepayers with data-center costs. New Jersey, Virginia, and New York went further. The fight over who pays for AI's electricity just went national.
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Beyond Data Centers: 5 AI-Accountability Moves in the Courts, the Statehouse, and Your Rent
The Supreme Court protected your phone's location data. Connecticut regulated workplace AI. And two states moved to ban the algorithms quietly setting your rent and your rideshare fare.
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Rhode Island Signed Two AI Laws in One Day — and 6 More Moves This Week
Rhode Island enacted AI chatbot mental-health protections, Inver Grove Heights turned back a $150M lawsuit threat to pass a data-center moratorium, a federal court kept the Mobley v. Workday AI hiring-bias case alive, and RealPage's biggest landlord customer agreed to pay $7 million.
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Spokane Says Yes — and 6 More U.S. AI-Policy Moves This Week
Spokane adopts its data-center moratorium 6-1 the day after last week's post; Vermont's data-broker law takes effect; Newsom issues the first AI workforce executive order from any U.S. governor; and the NYC GUARD Act is confirmed effective.
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Seattle Halts New Data Centers — and 7 More U.S. AI-Law Moves This Week
The data-center moratorium wave reaches Denver and Baltimore; Seattle goes fully effective; Oregon suspends its tax exemption; Spokane votes again; and the Seminole Nation holds its landmark data-center / GenAI ban.
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AI Law Graveyard, Edition 1: 8 AI Bills That Died in 2024–2026 (And the Lessons Buried With Them)
Bill-tracker dashboards count dead bills as live coverage. We don't. Eight vetoed, enjoined, and quietly-killed AI bills — what they would have done, who killed them, and what filled the void.
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7 AI policy moves you should know about — week of June 16, 2026
Tennessee's data-center moratorium wave spreads to three more communities, Nashville's mayor backs a ban, and California's insurance-AI gap gets filled.
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7 U.S. Cities That Banned Government Facial Recognition (Updated June 2026)
There is no federal facial-recognition law. A handful of cities wrote the country's de facto rulebook one ordinance at a time — here are the seven that set the templates everyone else copies, plus the only state with a comparable ban.
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10 State AI Laws Now in Force in 2025–2026 (And What They Actually Do)
The "patchwork" everyone warned about has arrived. In 24 months, ten states moved from white papers to enforceable AI statutes covering employment, generative content, insurance, and a Tennessee law named after Elvis. Here is what each one actually does — with bill numbers and effective dates.
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5 AI Bills That Died in 2024–2025 (And What That Means for the Patchwork)
For every state AI law that passed in 2024–25, at least one died. Those failures tell us as much about the political ceiling of AI regulation as the wins do — here are the five most consequential, and what their deaths signal for the next two years.
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The Hidden Layer of AI Law: 6 Local Ordinances That Set National Precedent
When journalists cover "AI law" they mean Congress, the White House, or California. They miss the layer vendors actually comply with: city ordinances and state biometric statutes that other jurisdictions copy line-for-line. Here are six.
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State Insurance Departments Just Quietly Regulated AI — The 24 Jurisdictions That Did It (2026)
While journalists watched California, Colorado, and Congress, state insurance commissioners did something neither legislatures nor the White House managed: put binding AI-governance expectations on a regulated industry. The vehicle is one NAIC model document — adopted by 24 jurisdictions.
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10 AI policy moves you should know about — week of June 15, 2026
Data-center moratoriums went mainstream, Washington enacted a deepfake civil law, and NYC built the first municipal AI oversight office.