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Posted on: January 2, 2019 at 10:07:41 CT

It's conservatives who passed such laws, especially in your state of Georgia.


https://ij.org/georgia-bill-limit-civil-forfeiture-convicted-criminals/

"Current Georgia law allows law enforcement to seize private property from people and forfeit it without even charging—let alone convicting them—of a crime."

"According to the Institute for Justice’s (IJ) “Policing for Profit” report, Georgia earns a D- for its civil forfeiture laws because of its low bar to forfeit property, poor protections for innocent third-party property owners, and allowing law enforcement agencies to keep as much as 100 percent of forfeiture proceeds—which encourages police to treat citizens like ATMs."

"Moreover, if an innocent person’s property gets allegedly used by somebody else in a crime, the innocent owner bears the burden of proving that he or she neither knew about nor consented that criminal activity. Even worse, if the property seized is a car and the person accused of using it in a crime is a co-owner, Georgia law provides no way for innocent owners to get it back. The innocent victim can’t even get compensated for the loss."