Public safety
6 tracked measures relating to public safety, in 3 states.
Topic labels are applied by this site to group related measures. They are a navigation aid, not a legal classification, and they are not assigned by any state.
Arizona
2 measures
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On the ballot
Proposition 317 would enact a state statute declaring drug cartels — defined as any association of persons whose members engage in human trafficking, drug trafficking for profit, or an act…
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Proposition 319 would enact a state statute barring an Arizona city, town, or state agency from beginning a new photo-radar or red-light camera enforcement program unless it has a signed…
Colorado
3 measures
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On the ballot
This initiated statute would change Colorado law on human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude. It would raise the offense from a class 2 felony to a class 1 felony, which carries…
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This initiated statute would raise criminal penalties in Colorado for fentanyl, carfentanil, and benzimidazole opiates. Distributing, manufacturing, dispensing, or selling these synthetic…
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This initiated constitutional amendment would require Colorado peace officers, correctional officers, and district attorney offices to notify the U.S. Department of Homeland Security within…
Massachusetts
1 measure
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On the ballot
Question 9 is a veto referendum on Chapter 135 of the Acts of 2024, An Act Modernizing Firearm Laws, which the Legislature passed and Governor Maura Healey signed in July 2024. A yes vote…
About public safety ballot measures
Public-safety measures deal with policing, emergency response, and the hazards a state regulates in the name of preventing harm. Typical subjects include law-enforcement funding, staffing, training, and oversight bodies; fire and emergency medical services and the taxes that support them; disaster preparedness and response authority; firearm regulation; and traffic, product, or occupational safety rules written into state law.
The category overlaps with criminal justice but sits differently: these measures more often concern institutions, money, and procedure than offenses and sentences. A large share are funding questions — a dedicated tax, a district levy, or a bond for facilities and equipment — and those carry the ordinary questions of any dedicated revenue: what it may be spent on, whether it expires, and whether a future legislature or council can redirect it.
Things to look for in the text: which agency or level of government gains authority or money; whether an oversight body is created and what powers it actually holds, since advisory and binding review are very different; whether a mandate arrives with an appropriation; whether the change is constitutional or statutory; and what the state's fiscal analysis projects. Each measure page renders the sources behind those answers as working links.
Wording, numbering, and certification status are set by each state and can change up to the printing of the ballot. Every summary above links to the records it was built from; where those records disagree with this page, the records govern. Confirm the final ballot text with your state or county election authority before you rely on it.