State & Local Executive Branches

Florida has an asset forfeiture law that provides for legal recourse, but that's too much bother for one Sunshine State police department.

If law enforcers stage a high-profile drug bust with the intention of influencing the outcome of the legislative process, is it lobbying?

Florida's Pinellas County has passed a tough new paraphernalia ordinance that lowers the standard of proof necessary to win a sales conviction.

Locked in a tight race, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is making methamphetamine a campaign issue.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have allowed California farmers to grow industrial hemp.

A pair of crooked prison guards and an emerging scandal in Baltimore make the radar this week.

Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Frank Melton has been playing drug warrior since day one. Now he finds himself on the other side of the law.

A hi-tech surveillance company's bragging about its secret demonstration during a music festival has drawn criticism for police about the operation.

The rotten odor of drug war-related police corruption wafts across Tennessee from the banks of the Mississippi to the hazy hills of the Great Smoky Mountains, and that's just half of our corrupt cops this week.

Pittsburgh's sole needle exchange program is one step closer to being formalized after its legality was challenged earlier this year.