Sentences with phrase «use civil forfeiture»

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Schneiderman's campaign today will release his second TV ad, which has a dual focus — his crime - fighting efforts, and his program to use cash from civil forfeiture funds to help purchase bulletproof vests for cops around the state.

Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, announced a program on Wednesday under which $ 35 million in civil forfeiture assets will be used to help other cities and states tackle their own (rape - kit) backlogs, which, nationally, total in the hundreds of thousands.

All the Orange County legislators were provided with documentation of factual cases of civil forfeiture abuse; law enforcement agencies and local municipalities using the proceeds of forfeiture properties, cash and cars to balance their budgets; articles from conservative think tanks like The Heritage Foundation against this law and public comments from citizens, attorneys and former police officers expressing their view against this law.

Cash seizure involves criminal law, whereas cash forfeiture involves civil law, and different procedures, different evidentiary rules and separate courts will be used accordingly.

Law enforcement officials would have the «same criminal and civil forfeiture powers used in drug prosecutions,» and wiretapping would be permitted in criminal infringement investigations.

Under Ontario's civil forfeiture law, CRIA can, with a court order, take possession of property that is determined to be a proceed of unlawful activity, search for people who have suffered losses as a result of that activity and use the property to compensate them.