Civil forfeiture allows the government of Hawaii to take your property and sell it for profit without proving you did ...

SPLC Senior Policy Analyst Introduction Alabama residents Greg and Teresa Almond lost their home, business and reputation, ...

The sudden, unlikely inventory of exotic cars and yachts possessed ... Because these asset-forfeiture proceedings are civil rather than criminal actions, their targets do not enjoy the ordinary ...

SPLC spokesperson: "The policy creates a snowball effect that deprives people of their livelihoods while local cities and towns enrich their budgets." ...

The Need for Alabama Civil Asset Forfeiture Data Transparency, highlights the damaging impact the procedure has on Alabamians ...

Detroit police can no longer seize cars through civil asset forfeiture unless they can show that the car was used for trafficking drugs, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Monday. The court held ...

When Shakopee resident Megan Olson drove her mother’s 1999 Lexus drunk in 2015 and received her third DWI in 10 years, she was arrested by Shakopee police and the car was confiscated since ...

The Feb. 7 audit by the Suffolk County Comptroller's Office found a variety of issues with internal controls and accounting practices in 2019 and 2000.

Civil asset forfeiture is a tool used by local government and police officers to fight against crime and drug use by targeting the offenders’ economic incentives. Ironically though, this tool spawned ...

The initial selection includes cars, trucks, a commercial fishing boat and trailer, and Morgan silver-dollar coins.

However, this has not stopped law enforcement from commonly using the practice — known as civil asset forfeiture — to seize property they have “probable cause” to believe was involved in ...