A bill in the Oklahoma House would require a conviction before asset forfeiture, but the legislation leaves a loophole open that would allow police to continue using asset forfeiture by partnering with the feds.
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While the passage of this legislation would significantly reform the Texas asset forfeiture process, it fails to address a loophole that allows state and local police to get around more strict state civil asset forfeiture laws in a vast majority of situations.
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Under current South Carolina forfeiture procedures, the state can take a person’s property without even charging them with a crime. The Institute for Justice gave South Carolina a D- grade for its current forfeiture laws, saying, “South Carolina’s civil forfeiture laws offer very little protection for property owners.”
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Today, an Arizona law goes into effect reforming the state's asset forfeiture laws and prohibiting law enforcement from taking a person’s property without a criminal conviction in most cases. The proposed legislation builds on important reforms signed into law in 2017 that opted Arizona out of a federal forfeiture program.
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Equitable sharing is a federal program that incentivizes state and local police to bypass state-level restrictions on asset forfeiture. Both the Department of Justice and the Department of Treasury operate the program. Under the equitable sharing, local police seize assets they suspect were involved in criminal activity, sometimes without even making an arrest. Through a process […]
On this episode of Good Morning Liberty, host Michael Boldin (follow) discusses a victory against the Philadelphia asset forfeiture machine. While there’s good news, the federal “equitable sharing” program is a serious danger that still looms there and over most of the country. But it can be stopped. ALTERNATE SOURCES (links updated after processing): Watch […]
TRENTON, N.J. (June 13, 2018) – On Monday, a second New Jersey Senate committee unanimously passed a bill that would impose strict reporting requirements for all asset forfeitures in the state. This legislation would take a first step that could lead to substantive reforms, including closing a federal loophole that allows police to bypass strict state asset…
TRENTON, N.J. (June 4, 2018) – Last week, a New Jersey Senate committee unanimously passed a bill that would impose strict reporting requirements for all asset forfeitures in the state. This legislation would take a first step that could lead to substantive reforms, including closing a federal loophole that allows police to bypass strict state asset forfeiture…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (May 22, 2018) – Missouri police departments do an end-run around strict state asset forfeiture requirements and skim millions of dollars from Missouri schools using a federal loophole to circumvent state law. Missouri has some of the most strict asset forfeiture laws in the country. Prosecutors must get a conviction or a…
LANSING, Mich. (May 10, 2018) – On Tuesday, the Michigan House passed a bill that would reform asset forfeiture laws to prohibit the state from taking property without a criminal conviction in most cases. But the legislation leaves a loophole in place allowing police to circumvent stricter state laws by passing cases off to the…