TPPF tells us red states are moving to reform cvil asset forfeiture laws because:
- affront to central conservative ideals of property rights]
- affront to due process of law
- affront to the rule of law
Recommended reforms:
- abolish civil asset forfeiture entirely
- prohibit or regulate asset sharing with the federal government
- implement loser pay, so that the government pays attorney fees for innocent citizens
- require the state to “substantiate the property owner’s involvement in a crime before forfeiting property”
- require asset forefeiture funds to “go to an account managed by an external entity with oversight on the forfeiting agency”
- require the publishing and reporting of asset values of forfeited property