A recent SoonerPoll found that 73.7 percent of those polled favor reform of the state’s civil asset forfeiture law. (No) Thanks to Senator Anthony Sykes, the Legislature took no action this year; it will have another chance next year.
“The work to reform Oklahoma’s Civil Asset Forfeiture system has always transcended partisan lines and this new poll only amplifies the call to end the practice of seizing money and property from Oklahomans who have not been convicted of any crime,” says Ryan Kiesel, Executive Director of the ACLU of Oklahoma. “Oklahomans across the political spectrum understand that empowering the government to take a person’s property or money with very little, if any, actual cause is an affront to our fundamental rights and freedoms.”
