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City attorney presents municipal code updates on misdemeanors and drones; councilor Rodley urges careful response to federal immigration activity
Summary
City Attorney Mary Bridget Smith presented a first reading to update municipal code language, including clarifying that municipal code does not apply to drones (preempted). Separately, Councilor Rodley delivered a statement urging substantive local support for immigrant communities and careful policy work around federal immigration activity.
Mary Bridget Smith of the city attorney’s office presented a first reading of an ordinance to readopt criminal and traffic statutes into the Springfield Municipal Code to reflect recent legislative changes. Smith said staff also removed an older unmanned‑aircraft provision and explicitly updated code language to state municipal code does not apply to drones because that area is preempted by state and federal law: "our municipal code does not apply to drones." She…
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