The N.C. General Assembly is scheduled to return for the 2018 short legislative session on Wednesday, May 16
Published: Sunday, May 6th, 2018 @ 11:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Civil asset forfeiture is inherently unjust, as I’ve explained many times in the past because it empowers law enforcement agencies to confiscate property from people who have never been charged with, let alone convicted of, a crime
Published: Monday, February 26th, 2018 @ 3:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. House of Representatives just took a knife to funding for the federal civil asset forfeiture program - a move that could help protect innocent North Carolinians and their property
Published: Friday, September 15th, 2017 @ 7:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Under federal civil asset forfeiture, local and state law enforcement officers can take your property, including cash, if they suspect said property was somehow connected to a crime
Published: Friday, September 15th, 2017 @ 3:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper is determined to break the Republican supermajority in the General Assembly, and he's trying to raise as much money as possible to do it
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2017 @ 5:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As regular readers already know, civil asset forfeiture is a legal process that empowers government agents to confiscate property they suspect has been used for, or derived from, criminal activity. It is a civil action against the property itself, which means the owner need not be convicted of a...
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2016 @ 11:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the first newsletter I wrote for the John Locke Foundation, I welcomed Eric Holder's announcement that the Department of Justice - the country's top law enforcement agency - would be reigning in its out-of-control and abusive civil asset forfeiture program. Unfortunately, as George Leef...
Published: Thursday, May 14th, 2015 @ 8:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In my previous newsletter, I called Eric Holder's January 16th order modifying the DOJ's civil asset forfeiture policy "a significant step in the right direction," and I encouraged my readers to join me in hoping, not only that more reform would follow but also that Holder's order might mark...
Published: Friday, January 30th, 2015 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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US Attorney General Eric Holder has been subjected to a good deal of criticism during his time in office, but even many of his fiercest critics have joined the chorus of praise for an order he signed last week entitled "Prohibition on Certain Federal Adoptions of Seizures by State and Local Law...
Published: Monday, January 26th, 2015 @ 5:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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