{"id":15885,"date":"2015-02-12T13:20:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T18:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15885"},"modified":"2015-02-12T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T18:20:37","slug":"wapo-house-panelists-say-changes-are-needed-to-end-civil-forfeiture-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15885","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: House panelists say changes are needed to end civil forfeiture abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/lawmakers-say-abuses-of-civil-asset-forfeiture-require-reform-legislation\/2015\/02\/11\/f5c27714-b21e-11e4-886b-c22184f27c35_story.html\">House panelists say changes are needed to end civil forfeiture abuses<\/a> by Robert O&#8217;Harrow Jr.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Members of a House Judiciary subcommittee agreed Wednesday that legislative changes are needed to prevent local and state police from making cash and property seizures under federal law without clear evidence of criminal wrongdoing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: House panelists say changes are needed to end civil forfeiture abuses by Robert O&#8217;Harrow Jr.: Members of a House Judiciary subcommittee agreed Wednesday that legislative changes are needed to prevent local and state police from making cash and property &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15885\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15886,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885\/revisions\/15886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}