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This is the Cater Daily Podcast for Wednesday, December 25th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown. Short of ending the legal theft known as civil forfeiture,

how can states reduce the costs associated with those programs?

Alan Clemens is a Republican representative in South Carolina where legislation is moving

to limit civil forfeiture and add data requirements.

We spoke in Colorado Springs in October.

Civil forfeiture is a huge issue.

It's overwhelmingly controlled at the state level.

The feds like to play with it as they can. In fact,

we have some still existing federal programs that allow states to circumvent their own state

laws a little bit to deal with forfeiture.

So what has South Carolina done?

Well, South Carolina has, we've started the ball rolling by passing out of the House of Representatives now pending in the Senate a data reporting bill that would require all civil asset forfeitures to be reported in the central database.

That will give us the opportunity to see what's going on

and to aggregate that information and compare it to other states.

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