New Mexico passes a sweeping bill to protect innocent people’s property from civil asset forfeiture
The New Mexico Legislature passed a sweeping civil asset forfeiture reform bill last week to protect innocent people’s property and due process rights. The bill, HB 560, effectively…
Wyoming misses a great opportunity to protect innocent people from abuse of civil asset forfeiture
Seeing the growing backlash toward abuses of civil asset forfeiture laws by law enforcement agencies across the country, Wyoming lawmakers recently passed legislation that would enact strong protections for innocent…
Lawsuit forces a Nevada county to return innocent people’s money illegally taken through civil asset forfeiture
In November 2013, Trevor Paine was on his through Humboldt County, Nevada on his way to California when he was stopped by a deputy from local sheriff’s department for driving…
Civil Asset Forfeiture: When Due Process and Property Rights Don’t Count
On February 6 the Federalist Society held as Civil Asset Forfeiture Update on Capitol Hill with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Institute for Justice as cosponsors. The event…