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In a press release, Ben Field, an Institute for Justice attorney, called the ruling "a big step toward ending the abuse of civil forfeiture nationwide." Under typical civil asset forfeiture laws ...
The outrageous case has led to calls from Congress to pass legislation curbing civil asset forfeiture. Sex Crime Victim Denied $69,000 Settlement Because Cops Seized Her Abuser's Cash Through ...
A former member of the Reagan administration's Justice Department acknowledged in a USA TODAY opinion piece in 2017 that civil forfeiture can be subject to abuse by police but argued that the ...
In the United States, civil forfeiture (also called civil asset forfeiture or civil judicial forfeiture) [1] is a process in which law enforcement officers take assets from people who are suspected of involvement with crime or illegal activity without necessarily charging the owners with wrongdoing.
The Institute for Justice says Indianapolis police and prosecutors are exploiting one of the biggest FedEx hubs in the U.S. to seize cash for alleged crimes they never explain.
On February 17, 2019, Halima Tariffa Culley's son was arrested while driving his mother's car. [2] Police charged Culley with possession of marijuana and seized the car. . Culley's mother was unable to recover the vehicle, and the State of Alabama filed a civil asset forfeiture case against the vehicle. 20 months later, Culley won summary judgment under Alabama's innocent-owner d
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights (F.E.A.R.) is an organization in the United States dedicated to stopping abuse of asset forfeiture, the practice whereby governments seize tangible and financial assets alleged to have been used in the commission of certain crimes.
That 2019 investigation took a statewide look at civil asset forfeiture by South Carolina law enforcement departments. The News found that agencies in the state seized more than $17 million from ...