休斯顿提案A开启提前投票：大麻轻罪执法降至最低优先级 并禁无敲门搜查令
休斯顿讯——位于德克萨斯州哈里斯县的休斯顿市10月19日开启提前投票，选民将在11月3日的中期选举中就市宪章修正案提案A表决。该提案若通过，休斯顿警察局须把A级与B级轻罪大麻持有执法列为最低优先级，并配套报告要求；同时禁止休斯顿警员申请或执行「无敲门」搜查令。提前投票持续至10月30日。
提案A又称「休斯顿自由法案」（Houston Freedom Act），由倡议组织 Ground Game Texas 征集约4万个签名送上选票。据 FOX 26 报道，提案要求警方执行搜查令时须敲门、表明身份并等待至少15秒后方可进入；大麻条款还要求市府对过去五年的轻罪大麻执法做一次性审计，并按年公布逮捕、传票、人口统计与执法资源报告。市长 John Whitmire 对该提案大体保持中立，并表示无论投票结果如何，大麻持有目前已不是休斯顿警方的执法重点。
无敲门搜查令的争议源于2019年1月的 Harding Street 突袭：警方凭一份后来被查明造假的宣誓书取得无敲门搜查令，突袭中屋主 Dennis Tuttle 与 Rhogena Nicholas 夫妇身亡。休斯顿警方表示，2020年一道行政令之后，该局未再执行无敲门搜查令。支持者主张把禁令写入市宪章，使其不随警局领导层更替而改变；反对者则认为，应保留法官在高风险个案中批准此类搜查令的空间。
需要说明的是，提案通过并不意味着大麻在德克萨斯州或休斯顿合法化：州法不变，改变的只是市警局的执法优先级与问责要求，且该提案只约束休斯顿市警察局，不及于哈里斯县警长办公室。选民现场投票须出示德克萨斯州认可的有效带照片身份证件；选举日投票时间为上午7时至晚7时。（GSM 据 FOX 26 Houston 与休斯顿市选举公告报道）
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Early Voting Opens on Houston's Proposition A: Lowest-Priority Marijuana Enforcement and a Ban on No-Knock Warrants
HOUSTON — Early voting opened October 19 in Houston, in Harris County, Texas, where voters will decide Proposition A, a city charter amendment, in the November 3 midterm election. If approved, the measure would require the Houston Police Department to make enforcement of Class A and Class B misdemeanor marijuana possession its lowest law-enforcement priority, with related reporting requirements, and would prohibit Houston officers from requesting or executing no-knock search warrants. Early voting runs through October 30.
Proposition A, also called the Houston Freedom Act, was placed on the ballot by the advocacy group Ground Game Texas, which gathered about 40,000 signatures. According to FOX 26, the measure would require officers serving warrants to knock, announce themselves and wait at least 15 seconds before entering. Its marijuana provisions also call for a one-time audit of five years of misdemeanor marijuana enforcement and annual public reports on arrests, citations, demographics and resources. Mayor John Whitmire has stayed largely neutral on the measure, saying marijuana possession is already not an HPD priority regardless of the outcome.
The no-knock provision traces to the January 2019 Harding Street raid, in which police obtained a no-knock warrant using an affidavit later found to be fabricated; homeowners Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas were killed in the raid. HPD says it has not executed a no-knock warrant since an executive order in 2020. Supporters argue the ban should be written into the charter so it survives changes in department leadership, while critics argue judges should retain the option of approving such warrants in high-risk cases.
Approval would not legalize marijuana in Texas or in Houston: state law would remain unchanged, and only HPD's enforcement priorities and accountability rules would change. The measure would bind only the Houston Police Department, not the Harris County Sheriff's Office. In-person voters must present an accepted Texas photo ID, and polls on Election Day are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (GSM, based on FOX 26 Houston and the City of Houston's election notice)
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图片来源：休斯顿市中心天际线（资料图）。David Daniel Turner 摄，CC BY 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons 发布。Downtown Houston skyline (file photo), by David Daniel Turner, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
