Wyoming lawmakers continue to work on long overdue protections for innocent property owners
The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Judiciary Committee met on Thursday in Gillette to review two draft bills that would reform the state’s terrible civil asset forfeiture laws. Though members of…
Court orders return of an innocent man’s money, but the federal government isn’t letting it go
Straughn Gorman was driving on Interstate 80 in Elko County, Nevada in January 2013 when he was pulled over by a state patrolman for driving too slowly in the passing…
Wyoming lawmakers are preparing to take another look at reforms to protect innocent people from government overreach
After a disappointing defeat last year at the hands of Gov. Matt Mead (R-Wyo.), Wyoming state lawmakers will consider two separate proposals that would protect innocent property owners from 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…
Desert Snow: The company that teaches the government how to take innocent people’s property
Over the last several weeks, FreedomWorks has released two publications discussing in detail the problems with civil asset forfeiture. First, we released Civil Asset Forfeiture: Grading the States, which,…
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…
Unlikely allies in the California Legislature urge colleagues to protect innocent people from abuse of federal forfeiture law
UPDATE: The Assembly Public Safety Committee unanimously approved SB 443 on Tuesday, though it was amended. The bill will have to go through the Appropriations Committee before it heads…
Law enforcement funding should come from Pennsylvania lawmakers, not from the property of innocent people
Pennsylvania has one of the worst civil asset forfeiture laws in the country, in the country, but a recently introduced reform proposal would protect innocent people from this form…
Carrying cash is not a crime: DEA stole nearly $44,000 from a law-abiding entrepreneur
Vu Do, the owner of two nail salons in New York City, was traveling through John F. Kennedy International Airport in February on his way to California with nearly $44,000…