Whitmer signs bipartisan civil asset forfeiture bills
Even amid a bitter fight over auto insurance legislation, lawmakers from Michigan’s two major parties came together on Thursday to celebrate the enactment of long-awaited criminal justice reform bills.
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed three measures that will forbid, in most cases, law enforcement from seizing property like cash, cars or houses from those who have not been convicted of a crime.
State Sen. Peter Lucido (R-Shelby Twp.), who sponsored Senate Bill 2, said that during his decades as an attorney, he always viewed the practice known as civil asset forfeiture as problematic.
“It’s been a long process, but it’s been a much-needed process,” Lucido said of the new laws.
Read more: https://www.michiganadvance.com/2019/05/09/whitmer-signs-bipartisan-civil-asset-forfeiture-bills/
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