Arkansas

Grades	Forfeiture Law Grade	State Law Evasion Grade	Final Grade
Arkansas

Forfeiture Law

Arkansas civil forfeiture laws put the property of ordinary citizens at risk. To forfeit your property, the state only needs to show that it is more likely than not that your property is related to criminal activity and thus subject to forfeiture—a legal standard known as preponderance of the evidence. To recover seized property, an innocent owner bears the burden of proving his innocence. Moreover, law enforcement in Arkansas reaps all of the rewards of civil forfeiture. It keeps 100 percent of all funds generated through forfeiture.

Forfeitures as Reported to LEMAS (Drug-related only)

	Total Assets Forfeited	Assets Forfeited per Law Enforcement Agency
1993	$4,015,853	$63,989
1997	$4,838,972	$14,689
2000	$7,670,474	$23,293
2003	$2,279,525	$8,752

Equitable Sharing Proceeds from the Assets Forfeiture Fund (AFF)

	Proceeds Returned to State
FY 2000	$540,568
FY 2001	$911,267
FY 2002	$773,525
FY 2003	$477,238
FY 2004	$2,377,787
FY 2005	$957,776
FY 2006	$4,406,266
FY 2007	$1,792,272
FY 2008	$2,581,575
Total	$14,818,274
Average per Year	$1,646,475

Freedom of Information Data

Reports of forfeitures by districts, which include all law enforcement agencies

	Currency	Number of cars	Number of weapons	Number of other properties
2000	$5,544,742	534	249	201
2001	$3,494,483	514	241	165
2002	$2,805,948	522	232	141
2003	$3,816,823	683	282	208
2004	$4,299,354	779	245	180
2005	$7,003,838	771	223	172
2006	$5,556,583	655	162	141
2007	$4,301,003	688	187	132
2008	$5,160,593	585	147	130
Average per Year	$4,664,819	637	219	163
Total	$41,983,367	5,731	1,968	1,470

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