City of Houston Proposition A: Marijuana Enforcement Priority and No-Knock Warrant Ban Charter Amendment
Source: app.harrisvotes.com
What does this measure do?
Makes possessing small amounts of marijuana (Class A and B misdemeanors) the Houston Police Department's lowest enforcement priority, with public reporting, and bans police from seeking or serving no-knock search warrants. No tax change; it limits how police use their time and powers.
Proposed by: Citizen petition by Ground Game Texas, a progressive organizing nonprofit, placed by Houston City Council ordinance
A progressive nonprofit (a 501(c)(4)) started in 2021 by former Austin-area congressional candidates Mike Siegel and Julie Oliver. It has won marijuana measures in smaller Texas cities.
Source: texastribune.org
A YES vote means
The city charter would order Houston police to treat small-amount marijuana possession as their lowest priority and ban no-knock search warrants.
A NO vote means
Police keep their current discretion on marijuana arrests, and no-knock warrants stay allowed under existing city policy.
Sources: click2houston.com · communityimpact.com
Sources: click2houston.com · communityimpact.com