{"id":831,"date":"2017-06-22T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/06\/22\/private-property-rights-mile-high-governor-signs-most-comprehensive-asset-forfeiture-transparency-law-big-stick-for-local-law-enforcement-included-carrot-not-included\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T22:00:00","slug":"private-property-rights-mile-high-governor-signs-most-comprehensive-asset-forfeiture-transparency-law-big-stick-for-local-law-enforcement-included-carrot-not-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/private-property-rights-mile-high-governor-signs-most-comprehensive-asset-forfeiture-transparency-law-big-stick-for-local-law-enforcement-included-carrot-not-included\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Property Rights. Mile High Governor Signs Most Comprehensive Asset Forfeiture Transparency law. Big Stick for Local Law Enforcement Included, Carrot not Included"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Institute for Justice<\/strong>, private property legal advocates of Kelo fame, say Colorado&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/hb17-1313\" style=\"background-color:rgb(249,249,249);text-decoration:none;color:rgb(71,181,173);font-family:Roboto, 'Open Sans', sans-serif;font-size:17px;\">HB 17-1313<\/a>, is the nation&#8217;s most comprehensive asset forfetiture reform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/hb17-1313\" style=\"background-color:rgb(249,249,249);text-decoration:none;color:rgb(71,181,173);font-family:Roboto, 'Open Sans', sans-serif;font-size:17px;\">HB 17-1313<\/a>\u00a0will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Require biannual reporting of the type of property seized, place of the seizure (e.g. which direction on a highway), if any criminal charges were filed in relation to the seizure, if the forfeiture was contested, and the final disposition of the property;<\/li>\n<li>Require agencies to report their forfeiture expenditures in detail;<\/li>\n<li>Require that all forfeiture reporting be posted to a public, searchable database; and<\/li>\n<li>Impose $500 fines for failure to comply with the reporting requirements. If an agency has not complied within 75 days of the due date, it must pay either a $500 fine or 50 percent of the forfeiture proceeds it received during the reporting period, whichever is greater.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ij.org\/press-release\/colorado-now-leads-nation-seizure-forfeiture-transparency\/\">Institute for Justice | With Governor&#8217;s Signature, Colorado Now Leads the Nation for Siezure and\u00a0Forfeiture Transparancy\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Institute for Justice<\/strong>, private property legal advocates of Kelo fame, say Colorado&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/hb17-1313\" style=\"background-color:rgb(249,249,249);text-decoration:none;color:rgb(71,181,173);font-family:Roboto, 'Open Sans', sans-serif;font-size:17px;\">HB 17-1313<\/a>, is the nation&#8217;s most comprehensive asset forfetiture reform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/hb17-1313\" style=\"background-color:rgb(249,249,249);text-decoration:none;color:rgb(71,181,173);font-family:Roboto, 'Open Sans', sans-serif;font-size:17px;\">HB 17-1313<\/a>\u00a0will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Require biannual reporting of the type of property seized, place of the seizure (e.g. which direction on a highway), if any criminal charges were filed in relation to the seizure, if the forfeiture was contested, and the final disposition of the property;<\/li>\n<li>Require agencies to report their forfeiture expenditures in\u2026<\/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":[49,45,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issues","category-civil-asset-forfeiture","category-legislation-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}