A Massachusetts Commission Recommends Long-Overdue Reforms to the ‘Worst Civil Forfeiture Laws in the Country’
Massachusetts has a progressive reputation and a legislature that has long been controlled by...
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Maine Becomes 4th State To Repeal Civil Asset Forfeiture
Maine became the fourth state in the nation to abolish civil asset forfeiture, a practice where...
Read MoreBiden Promised Change But Refuses to Repeal One of Trump’s Worst Policies
Biden, like all presidents before him, talked a big talk when it comes to change, but he’s quickly proving to be just like his predecessor. This post has been republished with permission from a publicly-available RSS feed...
Read MoreThe FBI Returned This Innocent Couple’s Safe Deposit Box. It Refuses To Give Back Many Others—and Is Trying To Seize $85 Million in Cash.
“The silence is deafening,” said attorney Jennifer Snitko, who briefly choked up on Thursday as she exited the West Los Angeles Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard, home to the FBI’s area field office....
Read MoreAlabama Legislature Passes Modest Asset Forfeiture Reforms
The Alabama legislature passed a compromise bill on Monday to curtail asset forfeiture. Although it was significantly scaled back to appease law enforcement, civil liberties advocates still say that it is a step in the right...
Read MoreArizona’s Newly Enacted Forfeiture Reforms Will Make It Harder for Cops To Steal Property
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey yesterday signed a package of civil forfeiture reforms that will make it substantially harder for law enforcement agencies to take people’s stuff by alleging that it is connected to criminal...
Read MoreJudges Stick Up for Asset Forfeiture Victim
Police in Mooresville, North Carolina, found a small amount of marijuana in a man’s car and used it to justify seizing nearly $17,000 of his money. Thankfully, a state judge is raising hell over it. In November, Jermaine...
Read MoreArizona Legislature Passes Bill Requiring Convictions for Asset Forfeiture
The Arizona legislature passed a bill yesterday that would make the state the fourth in the country to require a criminal conviction before law enforcement can take property under civil asset forfeiture. By a vote of 29–1, the...
Read MorePhoenix Police Seized $40K From Him at the Airport, but Never Charged Him With a Crime
A North Carolina man is fighting to get back $39,500 in cash after police in Phoenix, Arizona, seized the money from him at an airport on suspicion that it was drug money, despite never charging him with a crime. The Institute...
Read MoreEnding Civil Asset Forfeiture Should Be a Bipartisan Project
During the seemingly endless run-up to the last election, my partisan friends would often say to me, “politics is binary.” Their point is that voters only have two serious choices in any election, the Democrats or...
Read MoreBorder Patrol Declares Innocent Man’s 5 Bullets ‘Munitions of War’ and Steals His Truck
Power tripping Border Agents didn’t like a man taking a picture so they searched his vehicle, found five bullets, and then stole his truck. This post has been republished with permission from a publicly-available RSS feed...
Read MoreArizona Senate Committee Passes Bill to Require a Criminal Conviction for Asset Forfeiture
PHOENIX, Ariz. (March 22, 2021) – On Monday, an Arizona Senate Committee passed a bill that would reform the state’s asset forfeiture laws and prohibit the state from taking a person’s property without a criminal conviction in...
Read MoreTwo California Cops Charged With Extorting Cash and Marijuana From Motorists
Federal prosecutors have charged two former police officers in Rohnert Park, California, with extorting money and marijuana from motorists during traffic stops. In an unsealed criminal complaint filed on March 9, federal...
Read MoreHome Invasions: All The Ways The Government Can Lay Siege To Your Property
Home Invasions: All The Ways The Government Can Lay Siege To Your Property Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford In “How ‘secure’ do our homes remain if police, armed with no warrant, can pound...
Read MoreAll the Ways the Government Can Lay Siege to Your Property
“How ‘secure’ do our homes remain if police, armed with no warrant, can pound on doors at will and … forcibly enter?”— Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the lone dissenter in Kentucky v. King Americans are not safe in...
Read MoreAfter the Cops Seized Her Car, the Government Waited Five Years Before Giving Her a Chance To Get It Back
On March 4, 2015, police in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, seized Malinda Harris’ 2011 Infiniti G37 because her son, Trevice, was suspected of selling drugs. Although Harris had let Trevice borrow her car, the cops never...
Read MoreArizona House Passes Bill to Require a Criminal Conviction for Asset Forfeiture
PHOENIX, Ariz. (Feb. 25, 2021) – Yesterday, the Arizona House passed a bill that would reform the state’s asset forfeiture laws and prohibit the state from taking a person’s property without a criminal conviction in most cases....
Read MoreArizona Lawmakers to Cops: You Should Convict People Before You Take Their Stuff
Arizona is poised to require police to actually convict somebody of a crime before seizing the defendant’s property. On Wednesday, Arizona’s House of Representatives passed H.B. 2810 by a vote of 57–2. The bill...
Read MoreWest Virginia Bill Would End Civil Asset Forfeiture and Opt Out of Federal Program
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (Feb. 23, 2021) – A bill introduced in the West Virginia House would reform the state’s asset forfeiture laws and prohibit the state from taking a person’s property without a criminal conviction. The proposed...
Read MoreIndiana Senate Passes Bill To Let Government Steal Stuff From People Suspected of ‘Unlawful Assembly’
The Indiana Senate on Tuesday voted 37-8 to pass a bill that would give the government broad powers to seize assets from people suspected of “unlawful assembly,” which, under state law, is defined as “an...
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