SB299 Summary

• Law enforcement agencies, multijurisdictional task forces, district attorneys, and state agencies must submit annual written reports to the Attorney General by January 15 beginning in 2018 detailing all seizures and forfeitures from the preceding calendar year.

• Each report must itemize seizures including date, location, amount of currency seized, property types and values, storage locations, felony charges if any, and all monetary expenditures associated with the seizure.

• Each report must itemize forfeitures including property descriptions, underlying felony offenses, court case numbers, disposition methods and proceeds, fund recipients and amounts, and detailed accounting of how forfeited funds were used and expended.

• The Attorney General must publish all submitted reports and a state aggregate report on its website by March 1 each year, with authority to enforce compliance through civil penalties of $500 per violation plus $10 per day the report is overdue, payable to the General Fund.

• Reporting entities may redact information that would disclose confidential sources or investigative material that could endanger persons, but must indicate in their report when redactions were made.