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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015
Civil forfeiture a nonissue in Clatsop County
complish with that,” Johnston
said. “We as an agency have
not had many forfeiture cases in
decades. It will have very little
effect on us, except when we
are working on substantial cases
and having that available to us is
good, but not necessary.”
The last time Astoria Police
had a civil forfeiture case was in
1993, Johnston said, when the
department worked with U.S.
Customs and Border Protection
to seize property from a Wash-
ington man accused of child
pornography.
In Holder’s decision, mul-
tiple exceptions are allowed,
including child pornography, il-
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
U.S. Attorney General Eric
H. Holder Jr.’s order last week
that prohibits local and state
law enforcement from using a
federal program to seize civil
property unless the owner is
convicted of a crime has little
impact in Clatsop County, ac-
cording to local law enforce-
ment.
Astoria Police Chief Brad
Johnston said the act of civil
forfeiture, where police take
assets from people suspected
of a crime, rarely occurs in
his department and across the
county.
“I’m not sure what the at-
torney general is trying to ac-
explosives.
The U.S. Department of Jus-
tice has received criticism over
the years for accepting seized
assets from the local and state
law enforcement through its Eq-
uitable Sharing Program.
The program has allowed
some state and local law en-
forcement to bypass state laws
that prohibit keeping proceeds
from civil forfeiture.
The Washington Post ex-
posed widespread abuse of the
program, mainly created as part
of the war on drugs.
Since 2008, the Post report-
ed, thousands of local and state
police agencies have made more
than 55,000 seizures of cash and
property worth $3 billion under
the Equitable Sharing Program.
The program allows police
departments and drug task forc-
es to keep up to 80 percent of the
proceeds from seizures, with the
rest going to federal agencies.
Clatsop County District At-
torney Josh Marquis said there
have been some “horror stories”
of law enforcement setting up
roadblocks and forcing people
into warrantless searches to
seize property, but such misuse
has never happened in Clatsop
County.
“The idea of federal sharing
of forfeitures has been a nonis-
sue here in Clatsop County as
long as I’ve been district attor-
ney,” Marquis said. “I don’t re-
-
ture shared with us.”
Marquis recalls a state bal-
lot measure about a decade ago
that eliminated civil forfeiture in
Oregon. The measure has since
been revisited, but still offers a
strict standard.
In Oregon, seized property
must be related to a crime, with
the majority of funds going to-
ward treatment services rather
than enforcement.
Law enforcement agencies
in Clatsop County and statewide
have little incentive to pursue
civil forfeiture since the cost
-
ston said.
Forfeiture cases involve stor-
age, maintenance, court and oth-
er costs to the law enforcement
agency involved.
“Our state forfeiture laws
have really been changed to the
point where they are not some-
thing that are feasible for local
agencies to pursue,” Johnston
said. “That is because of the cost
involved in turning them into
cash resources and split with
treatment instead of enforce-
ment.”
According to The Washing-
ton Post’s analysis, for hundreds
of police departments and sher-
-
ceeds accounted for 20 percent
or more of their annual budgets
in recent years.
Johnston said seizures ac-
count for nothing in his depart-
included in the city’s budget,
which does not translate to the
police budget directly.
“We just haven’t come
across things worthy of being
seized,” Johnston said.
Obama’s State of the Union draws
unsparing reviews from Republicans
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Barack Obama’s State
of the Union address drew un-
sparing morning-after reviews
today from majority Republi-
cans in Congress, including a
rebuke on nuclear talks with
Iran and a lament from Sen-
ate Republican leader Mitch
speech can be about “more than
veto threats of strident partisan-
ship.”
McConnell, R-Ky., said the
Democratic president “may
not be wild about the people’s
choice of a Congress. But he
owes it to the American people
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boeh-
ner of Ohio applaud President Barack Obama on Capitol
Hill in Washington, Tuesday, during his State of the Union
address before a joint session of Congress.
with the representatives they
elected.”
ident spoke Tuesday night —
with a notably different message.
Netanyahu has been an out-
spoken opponent of the direc-
tion of negotiations with Tehran
that the Obama administration
is involved in. Administration
-
vent Iran from obtaining a nu-
clear weapon.
The Israeli leader says he
fears the United States and oth-
er countries will give away too
much in the talks, and the exis-
tence of his country will be at
risk.
The invitation to Netanya-
hu wasn’t the only Republican
rebuttal on the horizon at the
dawn of a new Congress under
GOP control.
The Senate is debating leg-
islation to authorize construc-
tion of the Keystone XL pipe-
Union address with Congress
under Republican control was
studded with veto threats. He
-
da on taxes, spending, social
programs, energy and foreign
policy notably at odds with Re-
publican priorities. He did end
with a plea for the two parties
to “debate without demonizing
-
mise where possible.
The quick challenge on
Iran came courtesy of House
Speaker John Boehner, who an-
nounced he had invited Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Net-
anyahu to address a joint meet-
ing of Congress on Feb. 11.
Assuming the Israeli leader
accepts, he would stand at the
same podium in the House of
Representatives where the pres-
line despite a veto threat, and
the House has votes scheduled
this week on two other bills the
president has signaled he will
reject. One would ban abortions
for women more than 20 weeks
pregnant; the other would give
the government one year to act
on construction requests for nat-
ural gas pipelines.
The speech itself was mem-
orable for a split-screen sort of
response, in which Democrats
on one side of the House cham-
ber repeatedly rose to their feet
and applauded the president,
while Republicans who intend
to vote down his proposals sat
silently. When Obama prom-
ised to send Congress a budget
-
cal, not partisan,” a disbelieving
snicker swept through the rows
of Republicans.
“We’re not going to raise
taxes. He knows we’re not go-
ing to raise taxes. So I’m kind
of surprised he paid lip ser-
vice to that,” Wisconsin Rep.
Paul Ryan, the chairman of the
tax-writing House Ways and
Means Committee, said after-
ward.
The centerpiece of Obama’s
economic proposals was an in-
crease in the capital gains rate
on couples making more than
$500,000 annually, to 28 per-
cent, coupled with higher taxes
on some estates and a fee on
$50 billion.
Much of the $320 billion
that would be raised would be
ticketed for the middle class, in
the form of a $500 tax credit for
some families with two work-
ing spouses, expansion of the
child care tax credit and a $60
billion program to make com-
munity college free.
For that, Obama drew con-
demnation from Senate Repub-
licans.
“Calling for expanding the
death tax and raising the rates
on capital gains, like the pres-
ident did tonight, makes clear
this White House is more about
redistribution and populist class
warfare than about actual bi-
partisan tax reform,” said GOP
Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. As
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, he will have an in-
any tax overhaul legislation in
the next two years.
Submitted
The U.S. Postal Service will issue a U.S. Coast Guard
forever stamp in 2015. The stamp features a MH-65
Dolphin helicopter and the USCGC Eagle.
Coast Guard
honored with
Forever stamp
Oregon artist
painted image
The Daily Astorian
The U.S. Coast Guard
will be honored this year
with a Forever stamp that
features an oil painting by an
artist who lives in Oregon.
The stamp shows the cut-
ter Eagle — a three-masted
ship known as “America’s
Tall Ship” — and the guard’s
standard MH-65 Dolphin
rescue helicopter.
William S. Phillips, an
artist who lives in Ashland,
is known for his paintings of
American nostalgia and ci-
vilian and military aviation.
The Coast Guard stamp
is expected to be issued this
summer.
Forever stamps by the
U.S. Postal Service are equal
class mail one-ounce price.
Other Forever stamps
new for this year commem-
orate the Battle of New Or-
leans in the War of 1812; the
black architect and educator
Robert Robinson Taylor;
Mexican-born artist Martin
Ramirez; and the Special
Olympics.
Check out the Coast
Guard Forever stamp on
the guard’s Facebook page:
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