Attorney General Sessions Expands Police Powers to Take Cash, Other Property in Name of Fighting War on Drugs
July 19, 2017
July 19, 2017
NEW YORK, July 19 -- The Drug Policy Alliance issued the following news release:
Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new Department of Justice policy that increases the ability of state and local law enforcement to profit from civil forfeiture. This is a reversal of an Obama-era policy implemented in 2015 that limited state and local law enforcement from transferring seized property to federal agencies in exchange for receiving up to 80 percent of the proceeds from the . . .
Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new Department of Justice policy that increases the ability of state and local law enforcement to profit from civil forfeiture. This is a reversal of an Obama-era policy implemented in 2015 that limited state and local law enforcement from transferring seized property to federal agencies in exchange for receiving up to 80 percent of the proceeds from the . . .