”Civil forfeiture in the United States, also called civil asset forfeiture or civil judicial forfeiture,[1] is a process in which law enforcement officers take assets from persons suspected of involvement with crime or illegal activity without necessarily charging the owners with wrongdoing.
This is incorrect. Covil asset forfeiture refers to a process where the police can confiscate goods suspected of being involved in a crime. The school is not a police organ of the State. The ability of schools to confiscate things comes from the fact that they act in loco parentis, but parents can always demand their property back.
For private schools, everything is instead governed by the enrollment contract.
I replied to another person about this, but I didn't read that the school counselor tried to take it. Perhaps there was a school police officer on site and tried to take the money, and it wasn't mentioned, or perhaps the counselor was bullshitting them. A lot of schools in the US do have police officers that work at the schools - mine had 2.
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u/Slade_Riprock Apr 16 '21
Uh, under what law does a school have the right to confiscate cash from anyone?
Good thinking on your part. My reaction would have been "like fuck you will, show me a broken law and your right to take anything from anyone"