You Can Help Reform Civil Forfeiture! 

Federal civil forfeiture laws allow the government to take cash, cars, homes and other property suspected of being involved in criminal activity. Unlike criminal forfeiture, the property owner doesn’t have to be charged with, let alone convicted of, a crime to permanently lose his property. Worse, law enforcement agencies get to keep what they take to pad their own budgets. This is wrong.

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Tell your legislators that you support civil forfeiture reform! 

Fill out the form below to add your voice to the thousands of Americans who support reforming civil forfeiture.  

Our Goal:

End Civil Forfeiture

We are the Institute for Justice, a non-profit civil liberties law firm that defends private property rights across the country.

The Institute for Justice aims to curtail, and ultimately, abolish civil forfeiture, one of the gravest abuses of power in the country today. IJ has filed more than two dozen cases challenging civil forfeiture nationwide. In 2019, IJ secured a landmark victory at the U.S. Supreme Court when it ruled unanimously in Timbs v. Indiana that the Eight Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause protects Americans against state and local forfeitures.