Ballot measure · Colorado · November 3, 2026

Amendment 81

Title as the state lists it: Law Enforcement Communication with Federal Immigration Authorities^1,2

Research draftCitizen initiativeConstitutional amendment

How it got there: Citizen initiative
Kind of measure: Constitutional amendment
To pass: 55% of the votes on it
Researched: October 27, 2026

Research draft. We gathered this from official sources on October 27, 2026: election offices, state laws and court records, each linked to its source. Separate reviewers checked a random sample of 48 facts from the ballot-measure research against the cited sources and found no errors. The rest hasn't been reviewed fact by fact yet, so check the linked source before relying on anything here.

§1What your vote means

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

A yes vote

A yes vote would add a rule to the state constitution requiring police, correctional officers and district attorney staff to notify the federal Department of Homeland Security within 72 hours of charging a person with a violent crime, or with any crime if the person has a prior felony conviction, when they cannot confirm the person is lawfully present in the United States.² Where in the source: pp. 15-16

A no vote

A no vote would keep current state law, which has no rule requiring law enforcement to notify federal immigration authorities when such a person is charged and which limits state and local agencies from sharing some nonpublic personal information with those authorities.² Where in the source: p. 16

§2How it got on the ballot

Citizen initiative. Voters proposed it by signing a petition.^1,2

Constitutional amendment. It would change the state constitution.^1,2

It is on Colorado's list of statewide measures for November 3, 2026.^1,2 One of these official sources itself calls the list certified or final. What we couldn't confirm about the list is in the notes on Colorado's measures.

§3What it needs to pass