|Hayes Center was the first city in Nebraska, and the first outside of Texas, to pass a sanctuary city ordinance.
|Hayes Center was the first city in Nebraska, and the first outside of Texas, to pass a sanctuary city ordinance.
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|[[Blue Hill, Nebraska]]
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|April 13, 2021
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|City Council action (3-0)
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|[[Lubbock, Texas]]
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|May 1, 2021 (effective date of June 1, 2021)
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|Citizen vote (62% in favor)
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|Lubbock was the first city to pass a sanctuary city ordinance via citizen vote, the largest city to do so, and the only one where an abortion clinic was actively practicing. A lawsuit filed by the ACLU was dismissed by a Federal court on the date the ordinance took effect.
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#Blue Hill, Nebraska
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#[[Lubbock]], [[Texas]] (by far the largest city to pass such an ordinance, and the first city where an abortion clinic actually operates to pass such an ordinance; this required a vote of the citizenry to pass after the council refused to do so)