The federal government is waging war on Americans and their bank accounts through the "legal maze" of civil asset forfeiture, a senior attorney at a nonprofit law firm said. "The administrative ...

As cities debate “defunding the police,” a new poll shows that most Americans support ending policies that let law enforcement fund themselves by seizing property. Thanks to a power known as “civil ...

In a case brought by retired Marine Stephen Lara, a Washoe County judge ruled that Nevada law enforcement cannot use an “equitable sharing” civil forfeiture program to bypass state laws that protect ...

Civil asset forfeiture may have won the battle, but it will likely lose the war – at least in the Roberts Court. The Supreme Court recently decided Culley v. Marshall, a case challenging the ...

Over the past four years, Kansas law enforcement seized $23.1 million in cash and property allegedly linked to criminal activity. Most of the time, owners never tried to take it back. Kansas lawmakers ...

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 ...

Unsurprisingly, defendants convicted in federal criminal cases are primarily concerned with avoiding incarceration. Convicted defendants, however, also face various types of financial penalties, each ...