Local Governments Are Seizing and Selling Homes Over Small Tax Debts
Home equity theft happens when governments auction off seized houses and keep the profits—even once the tax bill is paid.
Home equity theft happens when governments auction off seized houses and keep the profits—even once the tax bill is paid.
Reason reporter Billy Binion discusses his coverage of outrageous cases around civil liberties, criminal justice, and government accountability, and the unusual path that led him to journalism.
The IRS fines hostages for taxes they couldn't pay while they were detained. A bill in Congress is trying to fix this.
Unreliable drug tests are sparking unnecessary child welfare investigations.
Rebekah Massie criticized a proposed pay raise for a city attorney. When she refused to stop, citing her First Amendment rights, the mayor had her arrested.
Judge Kenneth King is facing a lawsuit for punishing a 15-year-old who visited his courtroom with his "own version of Scared Straight.''
The government needs a warrant to spy on you. So agencies are paying tech companies to do it instead.
According to disciplinary charges against Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens, she suppressed video evidence that would have helped DisruptJ20 defendants.
The Supreme Court created, then gutted, a right to sue federal agents for civil rights violations.
Chelsea Koetter is asking the Michigan Supreme Court to render the state's debt collection scheme unconstitutional.
Recent footage shows a federal agent attempting to search a citizen’s bag without their consent, despite precedent saying that’s illegal.
We need not conjure "extreme hypotheticals" to understand the danger posed by an "energetic executive" who feels free to flout the law.
Georgia parents were accused of child abuse after they took their daughter to the doctor. Does the state's story add up?
Georgia parents were accused of child abuse after they took their daughter to the doctor. Does the state's story add up?
The Justice Department announced last year that it would expand a program to grant compassionate relief to federal inmates who've been sexually assaulted by staff.
Judge Carlton Reeves ripped apart the legal doctrine in his latest decision on the matter.
Staff shortages and chronic corruption have plagued the Bureau of Prisons for years, exposing inmates to abuse and whistleblowers to retaliation.
Mollie and Michael Slaybaugh are reportedly out over $70,000. The government says it is immune.
The three-judge panel concluded unanimously that while the state law at issue is constitutional, the wildlife agents' application of it was not.
Hoover’s reign at the FBI compromised American civil liberties and turned the FBI into America's secret police.
One man’s overgrown yard became a six-year struggle against overzealous code enforcement.
New language could make almost anybody with access to a WiFi router help the government snoop.
State government officials deploy scare tactics against families of special needs students seeking alternatives.
The local prosecuting attorney in Sunflower, Mississippi, is seeking to take away Nakala Murry's three children.
"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.
New York's botched recreational marijuana rollout just keeps looking worse.
The pandemic showed that America's founders were right to create a system of checks and balances that made it hard for leaders to easily have their way.
Mississippi's prisons are falling apart, run by gangs, and riddled with sexual assaults, a Justice Department report says.
An escalation in the war between people who publish secrets and those who seek to keep them.
"The people who violated the governor's mandates and orders should face some consequences," a Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board member said in 2022.
According to a new lawsuit, NYC's child protection agency almost never obtained warrants when it searched over 50,000 family homes during abuse and neglect investigations.
Teresa and Jeff Williams had their son, JJ, at home without medical help. They didn't know it would be nearly impossible to get legal documents for him.
An analysis of appeals involving the doctrine finds that less than a quarter "fit the popular conception of police accused of excessive force."
Yang Hengjun's punishment will be commuted to life in prison if he passes a probationary period. But the espionage accusations against him are highly spurious.
Johnny Jackson had just had surgery for his prostate cancer when three officers arrested him with "brutal force" over his expired vehicle registration.
The government abuse that precipitated Native American social woes is not directly discussed in Reservation Dogs.
Sylvia Gonzalez, an anti-establishment politician, spent a day in jail for allegedly concealing a petition that she organized.
St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker has thus far managed to get immunity for upending Hamdi Mohamud's life.
"I knew they were scumbags," a former Bureau of Prisons officer tells Reason.
The Houston-area Aldine Independent School District is considering the use of eminent domain to seize a one-acre property owned and occupied by Travis Upchurch.
The only effective means of keeping tax collectors from misusing data is keeping it from them.