As of August 23, 2011, some 414 local, county, and state governments had passed resolutions opposing the USA PATRIOT Act. This included 406 cities and counties, as well as 8 states. (All 414 resolutions had been passed by December 4, 2007.) The column on the right side of this page contains a list of those places. (Periodic updates of this list can be viewed here, where links to the actual text of each separate resolution are also available.)
The text of the New York City resolution is representative of the major concerns expressed by all the resolutions generally. For example, it asserts that:
"Certain federal policies adopted since September 11, 2001, including certain provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act ... unduly infringe upon fundamental rights and liberties."
"These new policies may undermine trust between immigrant communities and the government, and in particular, pose a threat to the civil rights and liberties of the residents of our city who are or who appear to be Arab, Muslim or of South Asian descent."
"The Council of the City of New York calls upon our United States Representatives and Senators to ... actively work for the repeal of those sections of the USA PATRIOT Act and related federal actions that unduly infringe upon fundamental rights and liberties as recognized in the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments."
CITIES AND STATES AGAINST THE PATRIOT ACT:
Alaska * Anchorage Bethel Denali Borough Fairbanks Fairbanks N. Star Borough Gustavus Haines Borough Homer Juneau Kenai North Pole Sitka Skagway Soldotna Valdez
Arizona Bisbee Flagstaff Jerome Pima County Tucson
Arkansas Eureka Springs
California * Alameda Cty Albany Alhambra Arcata Berkeley Calistoga Claremont Contra Costa Cty Cotati Davis Dorris Duarte Dublin El Cerrito Emeryville Fairfax Glendale Hayward Humboldt Cty Lake Cty Livermore Long Beach Los Angeles Los Gatos Marin Cty Mendocino Cty Mill Valley Monte Sereno Mountain View Nevada City Oakland Pacific Grove Palo Alto Pasadena Pinole Placer Cty Pleasanton Point Arena Porterville Richmond Sacramento Salinas San Anselmo San Francisco San Jose San Mateo Cty San Rafael San Ramon Santa Barbara Santa Clara Santa Clara Cty Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Cty Santa Monica Saratoga Sausalito Sebastopol Siskiyou County Soledad Sonoma South Pasadena Tehama County Ukiah Union City Watsonville West Hollywood Yolo Cty
Colorado * Aspen Boulder Carbondale Crestone Dacono Denver Durango Fort Collins Oak Creek Paonia Pitkin County Ridgway San Miguel County Telluride Ward Woody Creek
Florida Alachua Cty Broward Cty St. Petersburg Sarasota Tampa
Georgia Atlanta Savannah
Hawaii * Honolulu
Idaho * Boise Idaho County Moscow
Illinois Carbondale Chicago Evanston Glencoe Oak Park
Indiana Bloomington
Iowa Ames Des Moines
Kansas Kansas City Lawrence
Kentucky Lexington-Fayette Cty
Maine * Bangor Mount Vernon Orono Portland Waterville
Maryland Baltimore Greenbelt Montgomery Cty Prince George’s Cty Takoma Park
Massachusetts Acton Amherst Aquinnah Arlington Ashfield Brewster Bridgewater Brookline Buckland Cambridge Carlisle Charlemont Chatham Chilmark Colrain Concord Conway Dennis Duxbury Eastham Edgartown Greenfield Groton Heath Lenox Leverett Lexington Lincoln Littleton Lowell Manchester-by-the-Sea Marblehead Milton Newton North Adams Northampton Oak Bluffs Orleans Peabody Pittsfield Provincetown Rockport Shutesbury Somerville Sudbury Swampscott Tisbury Truro Wellfleet Wendell West Tisbury Westford Weston Williamstown
Michigan Ann Arbor Auburn Hills Detroit East Lansing Ferndale Grand Rapids Ingham Cty Kalamazoo Lake Cty Lansing Lathrup Village Meridian Muskegon Cty Pontiac Southfield Troy
Minnesota Duluth Minneapolis Robbinsdale St. Paul
Mississippi Jackson
Missouri Kansas City St. Louis University City
Montana * Beaverhead Cty Bozeman Butte-Silver Bow Dillon Eureka Helena Lewis & Clark Cty Missoula Whitefish
Nebraska Lincoln
Nevada Elko Elko Cty Las Vegas Silver City Sparks
New Hampshire Exeter Farmington Marlborough Peterborough Portsmouth
New Jersey Englewood Ewing Franklin Twp Highland Park Keansburg Lawrence Twp Mercer Cty Montclair Twp Mullica New Brunswick Passaic Cty Paterson Phillipsburg Plainfield Princeton South Brunswick West Windsor Willingboro
New Mexico Albuquerque Aztec Bayard Farmington Grant Cty Las Vegas Los Alamos Cty Rio Arriba Cty Santa Fe Silver City Socorro Taos Valencia Cty
New York Albany Albany Cty Bethlehem Brighton Canton Danby Elmira Greenburgh Huntington Ithaca Mamaroneck Mount Vernon Town of New Paltz Vill. of New Paltz New York North Hempstead Nyack Plattsburgh Rochester Rosendale St. Lawrence Cty Schenectady Schuyler Cty Syracuse Tompkins Cty Urbana Westchester Cty Woodstock
North Carolina Boone Carrboro Chapel Hill Davidson Durham Durham Cty Greensboro Orange Cty Raleigh
Virginia Alexandria Arlington Cty Charlottesville Falls Church Richmond
Washington Bainbridge Island Bellingham Clallam Cty Coupeville Jefferson Cty King Cty Olympia Oroville Port Townsend Riverside San Juan Cty Seattle Snoqualmie Tacoma Tonasket Tumwater Twisp Vashon-Maury Island Whatcom Cty
West Virginia Huntington
Wisconsin Douglas Cty Eau Claire Madison Milwaukee
