Editing Lancaster, Pennsylvania (section)

===20th and 21st centuries===
Lancaster was one of the winning communities for the [[All-America City]] award in 2000.<ref>http://www.ncl.org/aac/past_winners/past_winners.html {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707222907/http://www.ncl.org/aac/past_winners/past_winners.html|date=July 7, 2010}}</ref>

In 2009, a community organization installed and began monitoring 164 closed-circuit cameras in Lancaster, which engendered some local opposition.<ref name=lancol1>{{Cite web|url=http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/241024|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819024113/http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/241024|url-status=dead|title="Lancaster's candid cameras: Who funds them and what the controversial videos show"|archivedate=August 19, 2009}}</ref><ref name=lat622/><ref name=lancol2>[http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/239161 "Keeping watch on the city's cameras"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627093946/http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/239161 |date=2009-06-27 }}, ''Lancaster Online''</ref>

On October 13, 2011, Lancaster's City Council officially recognized September 27 as Capital Day, a holiday recognizing Lancaster's one day as capital of the United States in 1777.

Lancaster receives 20 times more refugees per capita than the rest of the United States, leading it to be dubbed "America's refugee capital" in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news |title=The refugee capital of the US |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-38776233 |access-date=2024-03-21 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> Between 2005 and 2019, nearly 5,000 refugees were resettled in Lancaster.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-18 |title=The Value of Being Welcoming in Lancaster, Pennsylvania – Praxis |url=https://sites.tufts.edu/praxis/2024/02/18/the-value-of-being-welcoming-in-lancaster-pennsylvania/ |access-date=2024-03-21 |language=en-US}}</ref> Lancaster announced its designation as a Certified Welcoming City in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Certified Welcoming City |url=https://www.cityoflancasterpa.gov/welcome/ |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=City of Lancaster, PA |language=en-US}}</ref> Nobel laureate [[Malala Yousafzai]] visited Lancaster in 2017 to honor its commitment to refugees, an experience she detailed in her book ''[[We Are Displaced]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Writer |first=JENNIFER KOPF {{!}} Staff |date=2019-01-10 |title=Nobel laureate Malala's Lancaster visit sparks two chapters in her new book |url=https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/nobel-laureate-malalas-lancaster-visit-sparks-two-chapters-in-her-new-book/article_8dd0e2aa-1514-11e9-abff-cbf9ea5b2da0.html |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=LancasterOnline |language=en}}</ref> Lancaster City Council voted to end cooperation with [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-28 |title=Lancaster City Council votes to end cooperation with ICE |url=https://www.abc27.com/local-news/lancaster/lancaster-city-council-votes-to-end-cooperation-with-ice/ |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=ABC27 |language=en-US}}</ref>