Reform Of Law Needed

Signatures are now being collected for Initiative 784, which seeks to reform the state's civil asset forfeiture law.

Asset forfeiture, as practiced in the United States since the 1980s, has great potential for government abuse against citizens least able to defend themselves. Your property is guilty until proven innocent.

I'm all for taking assets as part of the punishment after a person is found guilty of a crime, but civil asset forfeiture neither requires a conviction nor that a person even be charged with a crime. I will sleep better at night if I-784 becomes law.

David M. Schwartz

Redmond

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