LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — The Michigan State Senate has passed its first bill of the session. It would strip police agencies of their ability to seize the property of criminal suspects until they are convicted.
Currently property, cars, guns, TV’s, cash and even homes are seized after arrests and sold off. In some cases, the charges are never pursued or the suspect found not guilty. Retrieving that seized property is a difficult process, that takes a lawyer to accomplish.
Sponsor Peter Lucido calls it “Policing for Profit”. He says it’s just unconstitutional.
Lucido got the measure passed in the House last year but it stalled in the Senate, where it was blocked by former Sheriff Rick Jones.
Now that he is a Senator, he has gotten it approved in that chamber, and now he needs to get it passed in the House, to get it to the Governor.
(copy written by John McNeill)
