White v. Camden County Sheriff's Department

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• holding that a county sheriff’s department is not a legal entity capable of being sued
• finding the Camden County Sheriff’s Department was not an entity capable of being sued
• where the plaintiffs lawfully seized property was forfeited to federal authorities pursuant to the Criminal Activity Forfeiture Act, a sheriff who received an equitable sharing of the forfeiture proceeds for his local narcotics unit did not “wrongfully detain” the plaintiffs property
• “Appellant’s attempt to link a board of police commissioners or an individual police chief to a ‘sheriff’s department’ as a legal entity has no merit. The court correctly found the Camden County Sheriff’s Department was not a proper party to the action.”

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