About the DKT Liberty Project

Thomas Jefferson warned, “the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” Mindful of this trend, the Liberty Project was founded to promote individual liberty against encroachment by all levels of government. Learn more...

Lawsuit Settled as City Agrees to Major Changes

Calling the city Recorders Court in Columbus, Georgia “a troubled and dysfunctional institution whose judges and clerks routinely disregard the rights of defendants, including indigent citizens,” the Southern Center for Human Rights, with support from the DKT Liberty Project, sued the mayor of Columbus, the chief judge of the city Recorders Court, and his clerk Read the full article…

Man Serving Life Sentence for Selling $75 Worth of Crack Cocaine is Now a Free Man

When we first learned about Christopher Dugger, 54, he had served 16 years in a Georgia prison on a sentence of life without parole for selling $75 worth of crack cocaine to a narcotics agent. Dugger had 3 prior felony convictions, but none involved violent offenses. All were connected to his addiction to crack cocaine, Read the full article…

The Bronx Defenders Reach Sweeping Settlement with New York City Police

The Bronx Defenders is a nonprofit group that provides legal and other services to low income citizens in the Bronx, New York. They filed a lawsuit against the City of New York (Encarnacion v. the City of New York) on January 8th, 2016. This federal class action lawsuit challenged the police practice of keeping personal Read the full article…

DEA Agents Seize $60,000 at LAX in Unconstitutional Search; DKT Liberty Project Gets it Back

Stephen Clemmons, a bail bondsman from Delaware, decided to start a new chapter in his life, move to Los Angeles, and continue his work there. In February 2017, he packed his cash savings of $14,300 in a check-in suitcase under his clothing. In a separate black Nike backpack carry-on, he had another bag with $46,000 Read the full article…

Kala Rains Wins Case on Appeal

Kala Rains and her husband owned a small ranch in rural southern California. After her husband died, everything seemed to go downhill for her. Temptation came knocking in 2013 when a man said he would give her $300 to let two Mexican aliens stay one night at her ranch. She agreed, but one night turned Read the full article…

Mass Incarceration and Your Local Prosecutor

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise just published “Mass Incarceration and Your Local Prosecutor” by DKT’s Ronald Frazier. The article examines the main cause of mass incarceration’s and then lays out some solutions. Here’s a clip: The real culprit behind our out-of-control prison populations is our 2,000-plus out-of-control state and local prosecutors — including the Franklin County Read the full article…

VICTORY IN UTAH “DEADPOOL” CASE!

Judge Rules Statute Violates First Amendment “Brewvies” is the name of a theater that serves alcohol and food to movie-goers. The Utah Alcoholic Beverage Control sent undercover agents to view showings of “Deadpool” – – an R-rated movie that grossed $731 million at the box office worldwide, the largest grossing R-rated movie in history. State Read the full article…

Time to put brakes on civil forfeiture law

Here’s a clip from Ronald Fraser’s opinion article on Civil Asset Forfieture: By giving police officers a huge financial incentive to aggressively target forfeitable assets, rather than pursue justice, the feds invite property rights abuse. What to do? According to the Institute for Justice, a Washington-based public-interest law firm, Pennsylvania lawmakers should follow the lead Read the full article…

Ending Nebraska’s property forfeiture scam

Ronald Frasher, Ph.D., writes on public policy issues for the DKT Liberty Project, and recently wrote the following for the Kerney Hub: “Ending Nebraska’s property forfeiture scam.” Here’s a clip: In response to mounting cases of private property abuse, Nebraska lawmakers are determined to end state and local law enforcement’s addition to a lucrative federal Read the full article…

VICTORY FOR THE FRIENDLY MARKET IN OKLAHOMA!

After three trials supported by the DKT Liberty Project, prosecutors drop all charges From the Washington Post: An Oklahoma prosecutor dropped drug-related charges Monday against the owner of a now-closed pipe shop in Norman and a store clerk after previous trials on similar charges ended in acquittals and a hung jury. “It is a surprise Read the full article…