Colleges/universities with over 2000 students nearest to Vandalia: 1  Kaskaskia College (about 29 miles; Centralia, IL; Full-time enrollment: 3,867). 2  McKendree University (about 46 miles; Lebanon, IL; FT enrollment: 2,564). 3  Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (about 50 miles; Edwardsville, IL; FT enrollment: 11,933).
Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on private property rights in the nation today. Under civil forfeiture, police and prosecutors can seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency budgetsâall without so much as charging you with a crime.ost important to understanding these early cases is the underlying rationale for permitting civil forfeiture even against innocent property owners. The Court reasoned that civil forfeiture was closely tied to the practical necessities of enforcing admiralty, piracy and customs laws.
Civil forfeiture in the United States, sometimes called civil judicial forfeiture, is a controversial legal 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.n a civil forfeiture case in the United States, the state is the plaintiff and a thing is the defendant -- in this case, the thing is $25,180 cash which was seized by police under suspicion of being involved in illegal activity.