Public safety should mean safer neighborhoods, responsive emergency services, and respect for civil rights.

Scott believes Californians should not have to choose between safety and civil rights. Families deserve neighborhoods that are clean and safe, and they also deserve a public safety system that is accountable, balanced, and trustworthy. As a City Councilmember, father of three, and member of the Alameda County Fire Department Advisory Commission, Scott has focused on the practical parts of public safety that shape daily life: emergency response, crime prevention, and community trust.

Scott’s record

• Helped hire more police officers and more community service workers in Union City.

• Protected public safety funding while supporting a community-oriented approach to policing.

• Served on the Alameda County Fire Department Advisory Commission and helped increase support for local fire and emergency response.

• Prioritized emergency preparedness and helped expand emergency response training for local residents.

• During Scott’s tenure on the Council, crime declined dramatically while police use of force remained very low.

What Scott will fight for in the State Senate

• Advance a balanced public safety approach that includes accountable law enforcement, violence prevention, victim support, and stronger reentry programs.

• Support community-oriented policing and practical strategies that reduce crime without sacrificing civil rights.

• Protect emergency response capacity and invest in resilience and preparedness for fires, heat, floods, and other disasters.

• Keep guns out of dangerous hands and strengthen common-sense gun safety laws.

• Treat ICE raids, family separation, and abusive federal enforcement as threats to safety, stability, and public trust.

Scott’s public safety philosophy is simple: everyone deserves to be safe, and nobody should have to live in fear — not from crime, not from disaster, and not from government abuse. He will bring that practical, rights-conscious approach to Sacramento.