Asset forfeiture is potentially a major hurdle for the Black Lives Matter movement. Since the burning of the third police precinct in Minneapolis, the mainstream conversation around policing has ...

An examination of the incentives created by structuring a Bitcoin reserve to hold seized coins with civil asset forfeiture existing. Yesterday, President Trump announced the long awaited Strategic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six years ago, police showed up at my home at night in Massachusetts, demanded the keys to my car and threatened damage to it if I ...

Earlier today, the House Judiciary Committee passed the FAIR Act on a 26-0 vote. We rarely see such unanimity in this era of partisan polarization! Reason's Jacob Sullum has a helpful summary of how ...

Law enforcement groups have long argued that civil asset forfeiture, a practice that allows police to seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, is a vital tool for stopping ...

[A] local police department or prosecutor need only call the local branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Drug Enforcement Administration, or other federal law enforcement ...

Three new laws in Michigan will limit property seizure practices in the state. Civil asset forfeiture is a legal process that allows law enforcement officers to take assets, such as money and ...

Another year has come to pass, another year in which the State of Kansas continued to unconstitutionally take millions of dollars from people within its borders through the state’s civil asset ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”) filed a civil forfeiture complaint on Sept. 14, 2026, seeking ...

A pernicious procedure called civil asset forfeiture allows law enforcement to seize and—all too often—keep your property even when you haven’t been charged with, much less convicted of, a crime.

“New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It’s all about how people choose to use it.” — David Wong When tech-savvy fraudsters use modern technology to create layers of accounts and shell ...