Property Rights Trend Grows: Asset Forfeiture

TPPF has been talking reforming aset forfeiture for a couple years now, and now the CLU and Grover Norquist have joined forces to bring us Fix Forfeiture, a 501(c)(4).

Here’s what Fix Forefeiture wants to fix:

• Ensuring that no individual can have property forfeited without first being convicted of a crime.
• Addressing conflicts of interest created when the government agency responsible for an asset forfeiture retains those assets.
• Adding due process protections for the individual involved in an asset forfeiture.
• Establishing reporting requirements for government agencies that seize property.
• Exempting certain property from civil asset forfeiture laws that would create undue hardships for the property owner, such as a homestead or a vehicle.

Lancaster Online

FixForfeiture.Org

Institute for Justice has been litigating these case. The same Institute for Justice that represented Kelo in Kelo v. City of New London that set of eminent domain reforms across the country,