Ogden City Overrides Property Rights, Shutting Down Cardboard Creation
Jeremy Trentelman is a resident of Ogden who recently built a cardboard fort for his three-year-old daughter. While his young daughter received a lesson in fatherly love and support, she is also now learning a lesson about the...
Supporting Property Rights Means Opposing Anti-Discrimination Law
New legislation proposed by Senator Steve Urquhart seeks to legally prohibit certain landlords and business owners from discriminating against people due to their “gender identity” and “sexual...
U.S. Attorney General Puts the Brakes on Federal Forfeiture of Local Cases
Update: The “equitable sharing” program described below has been restarted 2.5 months later, and local police agencies are once again being given significant amounts of revenue from seized property. U.S. Attorney...
Forfeiture Revenue for Fiscal Year 2014 Revealed
In a presentation to the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee this week, a representative from the Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice presented legislators with a report on how much money has been...
Policing for Justice, or Profit?
Throughout the country, police officers are able to seize a person’s property without that person being charged with—let alone convicted of—a crime. The policy giving legal sanction to this action is known as civil asset...
Federal Public Land Ownership in Utah—Feudalism vs. Federalism
In a throwback to English feudalism, the United States Government currently claims ownership of over 60% of Utah’s land mass and even higher portions of land in many other western states. The vast ownership and retention of land...