Advocates Reminded of the Often Undeserved Sway of Law Enforcement
COLORADO—(ENEWSPF)—February 27, 2015. This week an asset forfeiture reform proposal died in Colorado’s Senate Judiciary Committee. SB-006 aimed to join other states and the recent federal effort to curb the intrusive, arguably unconstitutional and financially distorted incentivepractice of civil asset forfeiture. State law provides people due process protections from state authorities seizing their property. However, local and state police often circumvent state law…
