News Item: Report: Utah police seized $1.4M under civil forfeiture law
Utah police seized $1.4 million in cash last year from people under a law allowing law enforcement to take someone’s property even if a person isn’t charged or convicted of a crime, according to a state report. The report also shows federal law enforcement agencies seized an additional $1.3 million in forfeited assets in Utah last year, some of which was shared with local law enforcement.
In most cases of the 400 cases, people didn’t fight to get their property back. Only 6 percent of people had any property returned.
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