Summit County Executive office is joining efforts to ban official business travel to North Carolina.
The move comes after that state a law that prohibits cities in North Carolina from passing their own anti-discrimination laws, including those based on sexuality.
Pry鈥檚 travel ban only applies to the 900 employees in the county departments run by his office, including .
Pry鈥檚 Chief of Staff Jason Dodson says his office will continue to ban travel to North Carolina as long as the law remains on the books.
鈥淭hat policy is sound policy that I think you鈥檙e not only seeing on the government side, but I think you鈥檙e also seeing it on the business side,鈥� Dodson said. 鈥淚f we see other states continue to enact other similar laws, it would be our intention for that to apply to those states as well.鈥�
Cuyahoga County Executive announced a similar travel ban for county employees in an executive order Wednesday.