Lege TREND. Civil Asset Forfeiture. 3 Points from Colorado's newly Enacted Legislation.

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Policy Goal: “Government should never keep assets seized from innocent people,”

The bill: Colorado House Bill 1313

What Colorado’s House Bill 1313 does:

  • uniform, biennial, and detailed reporting on property seizures by law enforcement
  • reported information must be available to the public online in a searchable format
  • limits receipts of seized proeprty from joint investigations with federal agencies

The Governor directed law enforcement funding to offset revenue lost from stricter civil asset forefeiture.

Denver Post | Gov. Hickenlooper signs controversial civil asset forfeiture bill, calls it “important first step” in addressing problems with practice