2009 Nebraska Code
Chapter 28 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
28-718 Child protection cases; central register; name-change order; treatment.

28-718. Child protection cases; central register; name-change order; treatment.

(1) There shall be a central register of child protection cases maintained in the department containing records of all reports of child abuse or neglect opened for investigation as provided in section 28-713 and classified as either court substantiated or agency substantiated as provided in section 28-720. The department may change records classified as inconclusive prior to August 30, 2009, to agency substantiated. The department shall give public notice of the changes made to this section and subsection (3) of section 28-720 by Laws 2009, LB 122, within thirty days after August 30, 2009, by having such notice published in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation within the state.

(2) The department shall determine whether a name-change order received from the clerk of a district court pursuant to section 25-21,271 is for a person on the central register of child protection cases and, if so, shall include the changed name with the former name in the register and file or cross-reference the information under both names.

Source

Laws 1979, LB 505, § 6;
Laws 2005, LB 116, § 9;
Laws 2009, LB122, § 1;
Laws 2010, LB147, § 3.
Operative Date: January 1, 2012