Legislature Should Abolish All Civil Asset Forfeiture

Civil asset forfeiture arrests property, not people, and takes it from people often without due process or, on the federal level and in many states, even a criminal conviction.

It’s a brand new year and everybody is happy and making all sorts of resolutions, left and right, so I thought this week I would join the party and, here’s a first, find something about which I can fully praise our state government.

Such as civil asset forfeiture reform. Back in 2018, led by Republicans—especially then-state Sen. David Craig of Vernon an…