Civil asset forfeiture vs. Truth and Justice

Civil asset forfeiture strikes at the heart of property rights. Authorities simply seize private property without all the messiness of convicting someone of a crime. It's blatantly unconstitutional and it shouldn't happen, but it does. What's worse, many state governments offer little to no information to the public about what they're doing with those ill-gotten gains. A new report and video from the Institute for Justice illustrates the case of Georgia quite well. The video was produced by IJ's multitalented Isaac Reese.



Kentucky, for the record, is among the worst performers when it comes to transparency of its civil forfeiture records.