Do you review the federal seizures in your county? That is, would you see anything covered by the Equitable Sharing Program? My understanding is that its common for state agencies to use that to make an end run around your point 3.
Unfortunately no, I have never had any interaction with the feds and handling civil forfeitures. Reading a lot of the articles the majority of the problems appear to be with the feds and not local governments. So it could be that at the federal level abuse truly is rampant.
