{"id":378,"date":"2015-10-08T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/10\/08\/lege-trend-civil-asset-seizure-reform-in-the-wolverine-homestate\/"},"modified":"2015-10-08T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T17:07:00","slug":"lege-trend-civil-asset-seizure-reform-in-the-wolverine-homestate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/lege-trend-civil-asset-seizure-reform-in-the-wolverine-homestate\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: Civil Asset Seizure Reform in the Wolverine Homestate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan legislature is moving a bill to refrom civil asset forfeiture laws that will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase the burden of proof for police to\u00a0&#8220;clear and convincing evidence,&#8221; that the property came from crime. Up from &#8220;preponderance of the evidence.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Local police will be required to document the property they seize &amp; their investigation with Michigan state police<\/li>\n<li>Michigan state police will have to post online all civil asset forfeitures<\/li>\n<li>Expanded to the number of crimes for qhich asset forfeiture reporting will be required to include:\u00a0prostitution, gambling, human trafficking, identity theft<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The civil asset forfeiture reform had bipartisan support and is expected to be signed by Gov. Snyder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does this matter to Texas?<\/strong>\u00a0Because asset forefeiture reform has been in the works for years and is supported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/content\/detail\/taking-contraband-without-taking-our-liberties-civil-asset-forfeiture-reform-in-texas\">TPPF<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/criminal-law-reform\/reforming-police-practices\/asset-forfeiture-abuse\">ACLU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the bottom line?<\/strong>\u00a0Asset forefeiture can be used as proceeds to fund local law enforcement. Greater reform, leads to less forefeitures, and that leads to less revenue for local law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/public-justice-safety\/tns-michigan-police-seizure-law.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_campaign=Most%20Rookie%20Governors%20Are%20Off%20to%20a%20Good%20Start&amp;utm_term=Michigan%20Makes%20It%20Harder%20for%20Police%20to%20Seize%20People%27s%20Property\">Governing |\u00a0Michigan Makes It Harder for Police to Seize People&#8217;s Property<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan legislature is moving a bill to refrom civil asset forfeiture laws that will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase the burden of proof for police to\u00a0&#8220;clear and convincing evidence,&#8221; that the property came from crime. Up from &#8220;preponderance of the evidence.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Local police will be required to document the property they seize &amp; their investigation with Michigan state police<\/li>\n<li>Michigan state police will have to post online all civil asset forfeitures<\/li>\n<li>Expanded to the number of crimes for qhich asset forfeiture&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-asset-forfeiture","category-legislation-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}