North Carolina’s asset forfeiture regime includes provisions that protect innocent property owners and discourage abuse. The federal equitable sharing program allows North Carolina law enforcement agencies to circumvent those provisions.…
On March 10, 2021, Jon Guze testified before the Georgia Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The topic of his testimony was asset forfeiture reform.
Carolina Journal’s Brooke Conrad reports that the Robeson County Sheriff’s office has opted into the federal Equitable Sharing program. Conrad explains: The Equitable Sharing program allows state and local agencies…
This is the second part of a three-part analysis of the federal government’s “equitable sharing” program and its impact in North Carolina. Part One explained how equitable sharing makes it…
Writing at journalnow.com — the online site of the Winston-Salem Journal, JLF’s Director of Legal Studies, Jon Guze, explains why North Carolina should curtail law enforcement agencies’ participation in a…
For many years, it was generally accepted that two features of North Carolina’s asset forfeiture regime made it the best in the country. First, under our criminal forfeiture statutes, the…
From Rocky Mount Telegram reporter Lindell John Kay: A North Carolina conservative think tank wants local authorities to stop seizing property under federal law due to threats to property rights…
Writes JLF’s Jon Guze in his report on preventing asset forfeiture abuse in North Carolina: For many years, the federal government has encouraged state and local police departments to take…
RALEIGH — North Carolina should take steps to stop state and local law enforcement agencies from working with the federal government in civil asset forfeiture “equitable sharing” programs. Those programs…
This is the first of a three-part analysis of federal asset forfeiture and the threat it poses to property rights and the right to due process in North Carolina. This…
The latest print edition of National Review offers a dim view of the proposed increase in federal government reliance on civil asset forfeiture. Attorney General Sessions announced his intention to…
George Leef’s latest Forbes column offers some advice to the president-elect. During his speech after the election results had made it clear that he would be the next president, Donald…