Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Dick Carpenter talked about money the federal government and the states bring in through civil asset forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to ...

Nov. 26—The Morgan County District Attorney's Office last week filed condemnation proceedings to acquire property from five defendants charged with drug offenses, while a state lawmaker who helped ...

The Kansas Legislature unanimously passed a bill overhauling the rules for when police can seize property under a practice known as civil asset forfeiture. The Kansas House and Senate voted 120-0 and ...

The Department of Justice is shelling out more than $6 billion to private companies to manage its asset forfeiture investigations, raising alarm from one nonprofit law firm that accuses police of ...

Civil asset forfeiture —the legal practice of allowing government to seize property suspected of being used or involved in the commitment of a crime—represents one of the most troubling erosions of ...

Civil asset forfeiture is not an asset to the American people—it is legalized theft without constitutionally-required due process of law. Thankfully, the practice may finally be curbed. Recently, the ...

Civil asset forfeiture is when law enforcement takes a person’s private property on the assumption that the property is connected to a crime. However, the government does not actually have to prove ...

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court decided to hear Culley v. Attorney General of Alabama, a case consolidating two claims against the Alabama authorities that raise the issue of whether the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The RICO trial of rapper Young Thug got underway this year. (Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images) The final chapter of the ...

Another year has come to pass, another year in which the State of Kansas continued to unconstitutionally take millions of dollars from people within its borders through the state’s civil asset ...

US agents seize $61M USDT tied to crypto romance scam, highlighting enforcement efforts, asset forfeiture actions, and blockchain tracking success.