Tuesday the NH House Judiciary Committee held an Exec Session on HB636, asset forfeiture reform. It came out shiny.
This c/o Kevin over at the Reform Asset Forfeiture Faceook Page, which you can join, btw.
HB 636, the Asset Forfeiture Reform bill, just came out of Executive Session in the House, 14-5! Congratulations to Michael Sylvia, co-sponsor and chair of the subcommittee, Dennis Corrigan who spent many hours on the language, Dan McGuire, the prime sponsor, Devon Chafee and Gilles Bissonette from the NHCLU, and Lee McGrath from the Institute for Justice who all contributed hugely to the bill’s passage. Oh, and Kevin Bloom and Mark Warden who raised the bill from the dead last session, and Seth Cohen who was the first sponsor, back in 2011—and Brandon Guida and Spec Bowers, co-sponsors from the get go! On to the House floor!
Stay focused on this one folks. We need this reform for New Hampshire.
[Update]
I just heard that “the chiefs” that would be law enforcement, showed up at the hearing. They don’t want to stop the practice of taking property from people who are never charged with or convicted of the crime because they need that $20,000.00 dollars a year to keep the wheels on the bus.
Seriously?
If the State police wrote just 10 more tickets a month for speeding- total, not per officer but in total, at an avg of $187.00 a pop for 11-15 mph over, they’d make another $22,440.00 a year. Speed Kills, right? I see people flying down the highway all the time. I see state troopers ignore speeding. Isn’t that part of your job? Or would you rather make excuses for robbing people who are not charged or found guilty of any crime?
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