Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
Friends, Indiana law requires prosecutors to produce detailed reports documenting how they use civil forfeiture. But we did a little sleuthing, and whoo boy, it turns out that the reports are riddled with errors. Indeed, nearly 30 percent of cases are going entirely unreported, a problem that is particularly acute in the counties that farm out their forfeiture prosecutions to private attorneys. Scandalous. Click here to learn more.
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