Oklahoma Senator Seeks CAF Reform: Round 2
State Sen. Kyle Loveless (R-Oklahoma City) seeks to introduce SB 838, the Personal Asset Protection Act, for the upcoming Oklahoma legislative session which begins February 1, 2016. Sen.
Oklahomans Overwhelmingly Support Legislation to End Civil Asset Forfeiture
Legislation introduced in Oklahoma to require a criminal conviction before property can be forfeited to the government has strong backing from likely voters in the Sooner State, according to a…
Elderly Oklahoma couple experienced government overreach first-hand in a botched raid
In March 2012, Linda Goss was in her residence at 238 Navajo Place in Mannford, Oklahoma, a small town located about 25 miles west of Tulsa, waiting for her husband,…
No charges filed in more than a third of Oklahoma civil asset forfeiture cases
The presumption of innocence is a basic principle of the American legal system. Americans are presumed innocent of any allegations of illicit activity until proven guilty by the government…
Yes, civil asset forfeiture denies innocent people of their right to due process
Oklahoma has some of the worst civil asset forfeiture laws in the country. According to FreedomWorks’ state scorecard, Civil Asset Forfeiture: Grading the States, the standard of proof the…
Conservatives and progressives come together to protect innocent Oklahomans property rights
The effort to reform Oklahoma’s terrible civil asset forfeiture laws has brought together unlikely bedfellows from the ideologically opposed think tanks. In an op-ed published on Sunday, Terry England, vice…
Here’s why Oklahoma should eliminate the perverse profit motive behind civil asset forfeiture
Oklahoma state Sen. Kyle Loveless (R-Oklahoma City) introduced legislation near the end of the 2015 session hoping that it would begin a conversation about reform of the Sooner State’s terrible…
Mary Fallin should get behind the effort to protect innocent Oklahomans from civil asset forfeiture
During a recent a recent discussion with Oklahoma journalists, Gov. Mary Fallin indicated that reforms were necessary to the Sooner State’s awful civil asset forfeiture laws. How far she is…