A group of lawmakers are taking a stab at limiting how much money local governments can keep from court fines and civil forfeiture for their yearly budgets. Civil asset forfeiture is the process by ...
A North Carolina teenager was hoping to get her life back on track after a state judge ordered a man who sexually abused her to pay her $69,000. Instead, she got a nasty surprise. The local police ...
The Kansas Legislature unanimously passed a bill overhauling the rules for when police can seize property under a practice known as civil asset forfeiture. The Kansas House and Senate voted 120-0 and ...
Kansas reformed civil asset forfeiture — the law enforcement tactic of seizing property suspected of being used in a crime — to be more limited in scope and requiring higher standards of evidence. The ...
Civil asset forfeiture is not an asset to the American people—it is legalized theft without constitutionally-required due process of law. Thankfully, the practice may finally be curbed. Recently, the ...
The Eastern District of New York (EDNY) collected more than $400 million in asset forfeiture last year, according to U.S. Attorney John Durham. With a region that includes Long Island, the EDNY ranked ...
A conservative Virginia lawmaker is tackling one of the most abuse-prone practices of law enforcement: civil asset forfeiture. Civil asset forfeiture allows police to seize property from citizens who ...
Civil asset forfeiture is when law enforcement takes a person’s private property on the assumption that the property is connected to a crime. However, the government does not actually have to prove ...
Nevada Judge to Nevada Cops: You Can't Use This Loophole To Get Around Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
In the first decision of its kind in Nevada, a judge ruled last week that state law enforcement can't evade stricter requirements for seizing cash and property by partnering with the federal ...
Hawaiian vacation. Margarita machine. Sparkles the Clown. Are we going to add Trump’s border wall to the list of “ridiculous things” that civil asset forfeiture funds have been spent on? It seems so ...
Yesterday, President Trump announced the long awaited Strategic “Bitcoin” Reserve on Truth Social, and many in the space are pissed. First, the Reserve appears to be far from Bitcoin only. “They’re ...
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