ArticleFrontiers in public health2026
"Police have more standing" vs. "I don't need the cops to stand in for me": public perspectives on police-initiated ERPO petitions in California.
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Introduction: Extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws, known as gun violence restraining order (GVRO) laws in California, allow temporary recovery of firearms from individuals at substantial risk of harming themselves or others. Although law enforcement officers are the most common ERPO petitioners, even in states where family members and others are authorized to petition, public preferences regarding police involvement in the petitioning process remain underexplored. Methods: We use data from the 2024 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey, a repeated cross-sectional general population online survey of California adults, to estimate the prevalence of support for and opposition to police-initiated petitions and thematically analyze open-ended responses describing the reasons for these preferences. Results: While nearly two-thirds (63.2%; Discussion: Findings underscore the importance of ERPO implementation strategies that are responsive not only to legal and procedural requirements but also to the social and relational contexts in which decisions about petitioning occur. More broadly, findings add support to growing efforts within the field, catalyzed in part by community organizing efforts around health justice and racial equity, to assess, adapt, and scale peer- and community-based navigation approaches that complement existing implementation processes and help ensure more equitable access to the preventive benefits of ERPOs for reducing firearm-related harms.
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