California seized many thousands of bank "Safe Deposit" boxes as being "unattended" during a fiscal crisis a decade+ ago. It caused a lot of commotion in certain legal circles, but was not in the mainstream news much. (details on request)
Edit: not to mention that it was a Democrat, John Chiang, that took on the task of attempting to return the property. I'm not trying to paint democrats as good guys, but I don't know how this event could be used to paint them as bad.
I thought the laws and constitution were supposed to protect people?
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/799345159
>QUINN: Yes. We forget about retirement accounts, insurance policies, safe deposit boxes. When you forget about stuff like that, after a certain amount of time, the state is able to step in, take ownership of your unclaimed stuff and hold onto it until you can come and claim it.