What happened to the Almonds is featured in a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center that calls for Alabama to break from a past of abuses and excesses in civil asset forfeiture, the process ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

HONOLULU (Island News) -- The Hawaii Attorney General's Office restarts its asset forfeiture auctions, with one starting on ...

SPLC Senior Policy Analyst Introduction Alabama residents Greg and Teresa Almond lost their home, business and reputation, and were forced to live in a utility shed without running water, after law ...

The federal prosecutors office that covers Long Island collected more than $400 million in asset forfeiture funds last year .

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