[Nomorjer Kinov]

Nice catch. Thanks for the post.

[76Tiger]

Not surprisingly, New York has the same thievery, probably modelled after California.

[conservativehusker]

Talk about a conflict of interest!..

I put this on par with asset seizures in law enforcement...seize that property and a chunk of it becomes your budget...ya that’s the ticket..it’s a drug war..ya...

[Sunshine Sister]

It’s about damned time that someone took notice of the thievery perpetrated by the state. Every state in the union does this. Kansas does advertisements on TV and has the list of owners at the state fair and other high profile events during the year. I still wonder if they do enough to reunite owners with their property.

[Always Right]

Last week, a federal judge ordered the state to stop seizures until it had vastly improved its efforts to find the rightful owners -- rejecting the state's rather unseemly claims that it would lose a lucrative source of income, about $400 million a year currently.

So what if we are stealing, did you see how much money we raised?

[lowbridge]

Last week, a federal judge ordered the state to stop seizures until it had vastly improved its efforts to find the rightful owners -- rejecting the state's rather unseemly claims that it would lose a lucrative source of income

Gee, Officer. If you stop me from robbing this house/robbing that bank, you're cutting off a lucrative source of my income and I wont be able to feed my children!

[freekitty]

The graft must be so obvious that even a Federal Judge has to put a stop to it.