State legislatures keep churning out civil forfeiture reforms

Everyone is focused closely on elections, given that it’s an even-numbered year. But there’s actually still a lot of policy being made at the state level.

Specifically, more and more states are moving to do something about civil forfeiture, the process by which law enforcement agencies at all levels of government have been taking and keeping people’s property, often without even charging them a crime, let alone convicting them. Just within the last fortnight, four Republican-controlled states have taken such action.