2018 referendum

Ballot measure would change law that currently makes it nearly impossible to hold police officers accountable for excessive force.

This article is part of our series previewing 2018 local elections.  In the wake of a Nashville police officer shooting and killing Jocques Clemmons, a Black man who was running away, community groups have put a referendum on the November ballot to create an independent board empowered to investigate police misconduct. Clemmons’s mother led the […]

People laughed when Kanye called for abolishing the “trap door” in the 13th Amendment. Now Coloradans are voting on theirs.

Michigan and North Dakota vote on whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use, and Missouri and Utah for medical use.

Ohio’s Issue 1 ballot initiative could ‘deal a blow’ to mass incarceration

In November, six states are holding referenda on whether to adopt “Marsy’s Law.”

Oregon’s 30-year-old ‘sanctuary’ law is under threat

Amendment 2 would require unanimous jury verdicts, as in 48 other states

Voters could overhaul Florida’s regime of mass disenfranchisement.

Will Florida voters open the door to retroactively applying criminal justice reforms?

But prospect of a vote on recreational marijuana unexpectedly fades. This article is part of the Political Report’s coverage of criminal justice in the 2018 elections. In a June 26 referendum, Oklahomans approved Question 788, which legalizes the medical use of marijuana, 57 percent to 43 percent. This expansive measure enables doctors to license the use […]

Recreational marijuana initiative headlines Michigan’s November ballot 

Morgan County to decide whether to bar their sheriff from pocketing jail food funds.